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Charles Macklin
2 quotes
“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.”
Charles Macklin (1699–1797) first seen 1759 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love à la Mode (1759), Act ii. Sc. 1.
“Every tub must stand upon its bottom.”
Charles Macklin (1699–1797) first seen 1781 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Man of the World (1781), Act i. Sc. 2. Compare: "Every fat must stand upon his bottom", John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, Part i.