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"I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put ..." — Benjamin N. Cardozo
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.
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