Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

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The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.

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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

Henry David Thoreau in Simplify, Simplify
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