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“Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.”
Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens“As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius“Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.”
Collected Works, vol. 11 • Carl Gustav Jung“"Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary?"”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall.”
Dead Souls • Nikolai Gogol