The Unwritten Laws of Life - Unofficial Rules as handed Down by Murphy and Other Sages.

Year: 2008

Author: Hugh Rawson

Binding: Paperback

Unwritten Laws is a wonderfully entertaining treasury of more than 500 rules, axioms and insights, each associated with a particular individual. None of the laws appears on the Statute Book, yet they shape human affairs more profoundly than any Act of Parliament or by-law. 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. Many of his lawmakers were and are figures of historical importance in the arts, sciences, and professions. Others are ordinary individuals who made a chance remark about some aspect of life, only to find it celebrated as an immutable truth. Rawson's skill has been to knit together these diverse elements and place them in context.

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