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Saturday, July 6, 2013

agree, for the law is costly

It is expen- sive to settle disputes in court because of the legal costs involved: “Come, agree, agree; the law’s costly” (Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation, 1738). The proverb was first recorded in 1605 by William Camden in Remains Concerning Britain.

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