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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
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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