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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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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Gain Honesty Men
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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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Example Hands Humility
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes

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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