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"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart."

"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."

"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."

"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."

"Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."
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