"Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them."

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Source : "Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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“I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.”
“I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.”
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.”
“O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.”
“Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
“Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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