William Shakespeare Quotes

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

William Shakespeare

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• Bird
• Terror
• Shapes
• Prey
• Scarecrow

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• We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Bird
  • Terror