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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
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
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
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

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