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A Well Regulated Commerce Is Not, Like Law, Physics, Or Divinity, To Be Overstocked With Hand
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A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physics, or divinity, to be
overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes,
and gives employment to all its professors.
-- Addison
Related:
The following appeared in a letter from a department chairperson to the president of Pierce University.
"Some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town, reveal that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area....
Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
-- Addison Mizner and Oliver Herford, "The Entirely New Cynic's Calendar", 1905...
Those who get A's become professors. Those who get B's become judges.
All the rest make the money. -- Law school maxim...
Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not regulated by conscience
If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence .
.. and the courts must abide by that decision. -- US v Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F....
It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?...
There are many shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretio
it is this, indeed, that gives a value to all the rest, which sets them to work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....
In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substance
magic and bullshit. -- G's Third Law There is no magic... -- H's Dictum...
G's Third Law: In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substance
magic and bullshit. H's Dictum: There is no magic......