“A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing.”

—  John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Reg. v. Swendsen (1702), 14 How. St. Tr. 596.

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