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“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Legal

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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

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