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'Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.'
Nobody knows what's wrong with themselves – but everyone else can see it right away.
Though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
SCTS and COPFS would find it difficult to jointly organise a drinking session in a brewery.
Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment. The world can never own a man who wants nothing.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goo
The Edinburgh Academy has taken first prize in the Mock Court Project's seniors competition, fighting off schools from home and abroad.
What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Be wary in front of a billy goat, behind a horse, or on any side of a fool.
