Quote #39955

Measures not men.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

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Source: Letters to His Son [published 1774] [March 6, 1742]

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Letters to His Son [published 1774] [March 6, 1742]

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You should produce the body.

The law is not concerned with trifles.

Judicial decrees may not change the heart; but they can restrain the heartless.

That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind.