Written Law

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“And cried, ‘Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And passionate as the dawn.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)