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If the defendant wants to rerun the argument he should be entitled to go to court, in which case the burden of proof lies with the prosecution.


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LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH