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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Benjamin Cardozo

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique

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