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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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 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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

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