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"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."

"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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"I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq."
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"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."

"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."

"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."

"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."

"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."

"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law."

"Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows."

"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."
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