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- I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
- Book of Common Prayer
- Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
- John Brown
- Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
- Elisha Potter
- He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
- Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase
- The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
- An act against my will is not my act.
- Unknown, Legal Maxim
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
- Sir William Draper
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