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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past

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

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