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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Law.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1f77a721e7cd33074f0616c39e907715178ed23273c77558326e0fa05af3757d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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