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“The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 58.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2c15b054fd71a6f5e874c0c6b9ccd6bbaaaf98d2151c8295523532699139fea9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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