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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation."

"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
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