It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, (the witness of times, the light and the life of truth,) and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.
Edward Coke (1552-1634) English jurist, politician
Les Reports de Edward Coke, Vol. 1 (1660)
Spelling modernized. Betaken means committed.
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Coke, Edward
For a man’s house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?
Edward Coke (1552-1634) English jurist, politician
The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, ch. 73 (1644)