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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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It is strange how little harm bad codes do. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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