An annotated collection of over 500 quotations that provide strategies for life from a variety of authors.
Unwritten Laws
As Catt's Law states: No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. To compile this collection, Hugh Rawson has drawn on biographies, novels, plays, interviews, TV, film, and popular folklore.
This delightful book is as wonderful for browsing as it is for providing guidance over the rocks and shoals of life. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
If a traveller were so unfortunate as to find one in his path and there was no shepherd in sight to call it in, he swerved aside, keeping well to leeward in the hope that neither sound nor scent of his presence would reach the dog.
The book analyses the treatment of lawbreakers according to class, gender, and community status, and in so doing presents a vivid portrait of standards of propriety and justice at the time.
While most financial and investment advice focuses on recent trends, or encourages consumers to buy a favoured product, this book breaks the mould, offering eternal wisdom that draws on years of expensive failures and enviable successes.
Being an identical twin doesn't come without issues.
Reveals the unwritten and hitherto inaccessible principles that govern the restructuring of large corporations in Chapter 11.
If It Ain't Broke: The Unwritten Laws of Life
Reading between the lines: America's implicit Constitution -- Heeding the deed: America's enacted Constitution -- Hearing the people: America's lived Constitution -- Confronting modern case law: America's "warrented" Constitution -- Putting ...