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Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
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
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
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction

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