Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Some People can no more Live without Law, then without Air, and they reckon it better Husbandry to spend a Thousand Pound upon Counsel, to Defend a Trivial or an Unwarrantable Cause, then to part with one single Six Pence for the Payment of an Honest Debt. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ There needs no more to the setting of the whole World in a Flame, then a Quarrelsom Plaintiff and Defendent, and a Brace of Chicaneurs to Blow the Coals, Wrangling is Instructed as an Art or a Science on the one side, and made use of as an Exercise on the other. ”
