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“Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.”

Quote by William Dunbar

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William Dunbar (1459-1520) was a prominent Scottish poet during the Renaissance. His works, primarily in the form of rhymed poetry and narrative poems, had a profound impact on the development of Scottish literature. more

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