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

Benjamin Cardozo

Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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

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