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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It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
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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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If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
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