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.
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A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneousFrederick Pollock
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.
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Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
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Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
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