The Path of the Law
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“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.”
“The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.”
“The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.”
“There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!”
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.”
“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.”
“Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.”
“And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.”
“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.”
“If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!”
“Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.”
“The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.”