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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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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