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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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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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