Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Judges are supposed to use all this power to make sure that justice is done, that at some basic level the verdicts issued in their courts display a certain degree of reasonableness. The judge, ... is under a duty, within the limits of his powers of innovation, to maintain a relation between law and morals, between the precepts of jurisprudence and those of reason and good conscience.
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