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We shall never tour America again. It is very hard work and one bring-down after another. Every place you go there is a barrage of criticism and eventually you just start lashing out.
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Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgement.
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But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" Then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.
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Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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But you couldn't touch this kid right now, bullets would have dodged him.
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"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."
from the book "" by Jane Austen