"Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end."

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Source : Samuel Woodworth, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1830). “The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts”, p.288

George Pope Morris

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“There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.”
“Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.”

Source : "Worship Through Giving, Part 2" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.
“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”
“As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.”
“A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”
“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.”
“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”

Source : "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

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