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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Source: The Path of the Law
“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”
“Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.”
“If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”