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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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