“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
“How many of you have broken no laws this month?”
As quoted in a speech http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt to the First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1991
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