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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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Reputation is the road to power
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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