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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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We are nothing but by the law.

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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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The law is agnostic about truth.

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