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If it's near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury have retired and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: "Well, gentlemen, what do we say? Plaintiff, defendant, gentlemen? I rather think so far as I am concerned, gentlemen-I say I rather thinkbut don't let that influence you-I rather think the plaintiff's the man." Upon this two or three other men are sure to say they think so tooas of course they do; and then they get on very unanimously and comfortably.

DICKENS-Pickwick Papers. Vol. II. Ch. VI.

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I know'd what 'ud come o' this here mode o' doin' business. Oh, Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

DICKENS-Pickwick Papers. Vol. II. Ch. VI.

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When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. S. J. FIELD When advised to arm himself. California. (1889)

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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

FROUDE Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism.

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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great Subjects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subject.

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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

GIBBON-The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. XIV. Vol. I.

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Es erben sich Gesetz und Rechte

Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. GOETHE-Faust. I. 4. 449.

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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. GOLDSMITH-The Traveller. L. 386. Same in Vicar of Wakefield.

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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

U. S. GRANT Inaugural Address. March 4, 1869.

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A cloud of witnesses. Hebrews. XII. 1.

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Once (says an Author; where, I need not say)
Two Trav❜lers found an Oyster in their way;
Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong,
While Scale in hand Dame Justice pass'd along.
Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right,
Takes, open, swallows it, before their sight.
The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
"There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a
shell.

We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster-live in peace-Adieu." POPE-Verbatim from Boileau.

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