Man is a creature endowed with reason and free will

Man is a creature endowed with reason and free will
"Man is a creature endowed with reason and free will; but when he goes to law as plaintiff, his reason seems to have left him; while, if he stands in the position of defendant, it is generally against his free will."—Gilbert Abbot A. Beckett, The Comic Blackstone

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