“What may be good circumstances in one man, cannot be deemed so in another.”
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England
Rex v. Locker (1803), 5 Esp. 106.
Godfrey v. Hudson (1788), 2 Esp. 500.
“What may be good circumstances in one man, cannot be deemed so in another.”
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England
Rex v. Locker (1803), 5 Esp. 106.
“In doubt, the quickest way to clear one's mind is to discuss.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Masterly inactivity may be prudence to one man, desperate rashness to another.”
Arthur Kekewich (1832–1907) British judge
In re Liverpool Household Stores Assoc. (1890), 59 L. J. Rep. C. D. 618.
“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
“What is one man's gain is another's loss.”
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
Connor v. Kent (1891), 61 L. J. Rep. Mag. Ca. 18.
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem