"The kind of woman I want just isn't around anymore. Perhaps if you wait for a full moon."

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"Bull Morgan was just the right man for the job, a man who found the law useful in how far it could occasionally be bent to save a friend."

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"The place of justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not only the bench, but the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thereof, ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption."

— Francis Bacon

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