Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee

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Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

No cause of action arises from a bare promise

No cause of action arises from a bare promise

Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity

Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity

It is fraud to conceal fraud

It is fraud to conceal fraud

The trodden path is the safest

The trodden path is the safest

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit...

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit...

Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober

Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says,...

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says,...

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer...

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Every sin is the result of collaboration

Every sin is the result of collaboration

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall