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Law Is A Bottomless-pit, It Is A Cormorant, A Harpy, That Devours Every Thing.

I Believe The Calculation Of The Quantity Of Probability Might Be Improved To A Very Useful And Pleasant Speculation, And Applied To A Great Many Events Which Are Accidental, Besides Those Of Games; Only These Cases Would Be Infinitely More Confused, As Depending On Chances Which The Most Part Of Men Are Ignorant Of.

He That Sows His Grain Upon Marble Will Have Many A Hungry Belly Before His Harvest.

Hocus Was An Old Cunning Attorney. The Words Of Consecration, "hoc Est Corpus," Were Travestied Into A Nickname For Jugglery, As "hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History Of The English People, 1874. See Charles Macklin.

It Is Surprising To See What Superficial, Inconsequential Reasonings Satisfy The Most Part Of Mankind. A Piece Of Wit, A Jest, A Simile, Or A Quotation Of An Author, Passes For A Mighty Argument.... This Weakness And Effeminacy Of Mankind In Being Persuaded Where They Are Delighted, Have Made Them The Sport Of Orators, Poets, And Men Of Wit.