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Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Henry James Sumner Maine

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
August 15, 1822
Date of Death:
February 3, 1888
Nationality:
English
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