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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Edward Coke
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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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Precaution is better than a cure.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
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The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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We have a saying in the House of Commons that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
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