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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 992
AUTHOR: John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)
QUOTATION: Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, ed. Alan W. Bower and Robert A. Erickson, chapter 6, p. 10 (1976). First published in 1712.
SUBJECTS: Law
 


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