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"The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it."
Charles Macklin / Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Every tub must stand upon its bottom."
Charles Macklin / The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.

The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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