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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
William Dunbar
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"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
— William Dunbar

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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. — William Dunbar

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William Dunbar was a Poet from United States (1805–1861).

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Who said "Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enab…"?
This quote is attributed to William Dunbar, a Poet from United States.
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William Dunbar lived from 1805 – 1861.