General Sir Douglas

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    “It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”
    —Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)