The Law Is A Sort Of Hocus-pocus Science, That Smiles In Yer Face While It Picks Yer Pocke

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face
while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of
mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
-- Charles Macklin (1690-1797)
-- Love a la Mode, Act ii, Sc. 1

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