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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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Justice Mind Ordinary
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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 Justice Law
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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

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