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• Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine
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• Necessity has no law.
• The optimum committee has no members. -- Augustine's Law Number XXXI -- Norman R.
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• Necessity has no law; I know some Lawyers of the same. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• Necessity has no law. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xv
• They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape
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