“He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.” BloodWoundsMagistrate Mocked Book:Betrayal Source: Betrayal
“We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from our law courts as it is from our heads, we delight in trampling it underfoot, and that is what makes our judicial sentences such masterpieces, since (although commonsense never presides in them) those sentences are carried out with as much firmness as if people knew what they actually meant.” ReasonLawMagistratesCommonsenseMagistrate Mocked Book:Betrayal Source: Betrayal