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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Honesty Honor Sensitive
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes

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