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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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