Unwritten laws: the unofficial rules of life as handed down by Murphy and other sages

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CAPONE'S LAW. You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. LANCE'S LAW. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. MILLER'S LAW. The quality of food in restaurants is in inverse proportion to the number of signed celebrity photographs on the wall. WALPOLE'S LAW.

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