In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
 Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912). copy citation

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Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
Source A Princess of Mars
Topic happiness lawyer
Date 1912
Language English
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“Customs have been handed down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of the culprit's peers, and I may say that justice seldom misses fire, but seems rather to rule in inverse ratio to the ascendency of law. In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
I did not see the prisoner again for several days subsequent to our first encounter, and then only to catch a fleeting glimpse of her as she was being conducted to the great audience chamber where I had had my first meeting with Lorquas Ptomel.” source

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