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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:434
AUTHOR:Robert Bolt (1924–95)
QUOTATION:Roper:  So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!

[Sir Thomas] More:  Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?… Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
ATTRIBUTION:ROBERT BOLT, A Man for All Seasons, act I, p. 39 (1967).
SUBJECTS:Devil
 
 
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