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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved

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