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“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”

Book:The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

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The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

This book is a compilation of poems, showcasing the author's talent in verse form across a range of themes and styles. more

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Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt was an English poet, essayist, and journalist, born in October 1784 and died on August 28, 1859. He was a prominent figure in the Romantic movement and is known for his literary contributions and social activism. more

“The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.”

Seems Law Fall Justice Standards Machines Committed Get Away Usual Acceptable Spit Crude Doing Right Shenanigans

Author:Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

“Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.”

People Law Common Common Sense Interpreter

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

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

Law Saved Insanity Cain

Author:Mark Twain

“All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.”

Thinking Country Done Justice Common Share Havens Speech Ridiculous Common Sense Candidates

Author:Gracie Allen

“If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.”

Ifs Country Would Be Law Constitution Sweat

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

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

“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…

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