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
“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.” Book IV
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively; strive to get clear notions about all; give up no science entirely, for science is but one. Day's Collacon
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. Book VI
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