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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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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 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
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past

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