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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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
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
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
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
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

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