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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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 Men Tides
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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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 Justice
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

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