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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 8th, 1841

Died: March 6th, 1935

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