A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind… - Edward Coke

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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

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About Edward Coke

Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English Judge and jurist and later a politician whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.

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Alternative Names: Sir Edward Coke

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