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Laws without penalties are like bells without clappers.
Czech Proverb
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The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.
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Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws.
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
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Thieves never steal bells.
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It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells.
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