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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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
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 great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
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

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