It's a big loss for the judiciary but a bigger loss for kids.


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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
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Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Chapter of accidents.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
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A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
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That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
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Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
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But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
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