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"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
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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."
"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
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"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
"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."
"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."
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