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My business in this state Made me a looker-on here in Vienna, Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'errun the stew: laws for all faults, But faults so countenanc'd that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as in mark. Shakespeare The greatest liberty of subjects, dependeth on the silence of the law. Hobbes
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