In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.