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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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 is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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