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The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was made, and by the aptness of things therein prescribed unto the same end.

— Richard Hooker Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

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Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

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