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— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield"The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime."
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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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