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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Benjamin Cardozo

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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Illusion
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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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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Source
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Tides
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honor Sensitive
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Dresses
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Humility
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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never
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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