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Get down, you fool!
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State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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I can't help preferring champagne to ditch water -- I doubt if the universe does.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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Every opinion tends to become a law.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
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If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
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A second class mind, but a first class temperament.
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