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Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Book by Mark Twain · 3 quotes · Ifs, Law, Men

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“The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.”