“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

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19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

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“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”

John Updike book Couples

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“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian

“286. Goe not for every griefe to the physitian, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“It is more than a month that he's been completely disappeared. It is a true tragedy. Accuse him of something. Give him a lawyer. Let him defend himself …”

Anish Kapoor (1954) British contemporary artist of Indian birth

Anish Kapoor dedicates "Leviathan}, his largest ever art work at the Grand Palais in Paris to dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Anish Kapoor dedicates Leviathan sculpture to Ai Weiwei

“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.
An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself — whoever himself may be — is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
i : six nonlectures (1953)

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Sir Walter Scott Collection Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A lawyer’s office is, I’m sure you’ll find,
Just like a mill, whereto for grinding come
A crowd of folk of every sort and kind.”

Pietro Nelli (1672–1740) Italian painter

L’esser d’ un’ avvocato, chi ben pensa,
E un molino, ove a macinar concorre
D’ogni sorte di genti copia immensa.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 334.

“Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”

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