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The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

Kings and fools know no law.

—German proverb

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966
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