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Law is a bottomless pit.

— John Arbuthnot

More from John Arbuthnot

  1. Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
  2. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
  3. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
  4. [The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

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  • justice
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