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"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."
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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
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"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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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
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"Hungry men don't ask, they take."
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"I don't sleep with happily married men."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
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"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
Abortion
"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."
Pet
"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."
Men
"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
Universe
"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."
Pretty
"Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows."
Lady
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
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"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."
Life
"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
Law
"It is strange how little harm bad codes do."
Harm
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