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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1173 |
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AUTHOR:
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Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634) |
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QUOTATION:
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It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, (the witness of times, the light and the life of truth,) and not wholly betaken [i.e., committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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SIR EDWARD COKE, Les Reports de Edward Coke, vol. 1, p. 3 (1660). Spelling modernized. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Memory |
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