No one wants advice, only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent
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
It is not poverty which produces sorrow, but desire. Fragment
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. The Karamazov Brothers
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