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• ‟ The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

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• ‟ The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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• ‟ To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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• ‟ You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

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• ‟ A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

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