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“We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.”

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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

“The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.”

Ifs Should Humans Made Government Law Human Beings Refuse Confusion Disorder Anarchy Stability Conventions Laws Of Nature Plunge Statutes

Book:Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

Source: Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

“It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.”

Law Objections Ark Inspectors

Book:Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition): The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Those Extraordinary Twins, The Stolen White Elephant, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain’s Library of Humor…

Source: Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition): The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Those Extraordinary Twins, The Stolen White Elephant, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain’s Library of Humor…

“...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.”

Eye Law Fall Individual Grows Cases Administration His Eyes Lax

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.”

People Knows Law Effects Vivid

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.”

Humans Law Purpose Opportunity Nations Race Cases Losing Defeat Human Race Civilized Savages Laws Of Nature Grotesque Precedence

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal to the stuff it is immersed in, That is the law of displacement, Thats why ships don't sink, Its a shame he weren't around in 1912, The Titanic would have made him think.”

Thinking Made Said Body Law Science Stuff Equal Shame Ships Volume Baths Displacement

Author:Richard Digance

“The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion.”

Made Law Science Force Equal Mass Newton Proclamation Isaac Acceleration Laws Of Motion

Author:Richard Digance

“As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.”

Law Courses Principles Increase Occasions Precedent Investigating

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

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