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Darrow: The man who bases his conduct on the law is neither an honest man nor a good citizen
Long ago Blackstone said that the man who bases his conduct on the law is neither an honest man nor a good citizen.
---Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) in his autobiography The Story of My Life, p. 345.
I haven't been able to find the Blackstone quotation he refers to. If you have it, could you send it in?
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