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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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Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
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Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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