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Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

— Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

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Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable

Source: Emma (1815)

— Jane Austen

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Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.

Source: The Law (1850), What Is Law?

— Frédéric Bastiat

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It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.

Source: The Law (1850), What Is Law?

— Frédéric Bastiat

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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

— Henry James

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