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This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty.
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We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
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