Famous quotes containing the words german, civil and/or law:
“She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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