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| "Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of Abbey Grange |  |
| No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit |  |
| "If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience." | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |  |
| "Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him." | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |  |
| So, Mr. Chadband--of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin--retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade. | Charles Dickens | Bleak House |  |
| The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. | Charles Dickens | Bleak House |  |
| "What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!" | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit |  |
| "Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work--or worry." | Gilbert Parker | The Translation of a Savage |  |
| "Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose . . . " | Gilbert Parker | The Money Master |  |
| You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |