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It’s surprising how many quotes about the legal system end up in literature.<\/p>\n
“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>The Money Master<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Gilbert Parker<\/a><\/p>\n In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>A Princess of Mars<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>The Woman in White<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Wilkie Collins<\/a><\/p>\n For, according to our old saying, the three learned professions live by roguery on the three parts of a man. The doctor mauls our bodies; the parson starves our souls, but the lawyer must be the adroitest knave, for he has to ensnare our minds.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>Lorna Doone<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>R. D. Blackmore<\/a><\/p>\n You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span>The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n It’s surprising how many quotes about the legal system end up in literature. “Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”\u00a0~\u00a0The Money Master\u00a0by\u00a0Gilbert Parker In one respect at least the Martians are a …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694,695,450,699,696,351,697,698,534,693,532,228],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-a-princess-of-mars","tag-edgar-rice-burroughs","tag-gilbert-parker","tag-law-and-lawyers-quotes","tag-lorna-doone","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-r-d-blackmore","tag-sr","tag-the-autocrat-of-the-breakfast-table","tag-the-money-master","tag-the-woman-in-white","tag-wilkie-collins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}See More Quotes about the Law and Lawyers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"