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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved

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