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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
Beings
Believe
How
Many
Patterns
Rational
Strange
Truths
Ultimate
Universe
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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
Century
Consider
Essay
Fact
Gospel
Merit
Pamphlet
Political
Revolution
See
Side
Will
Working
You
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Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
~ Frederick Pollock
Beyond
Circle
Definitions
Every
His
Narrow
Obscure
Own
Pet
Students
Use
Whom
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Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
~ Frederick Pollock
Another
Any
Consideration
Ever
Found
Hack
Horses
Just
Lean
Like
Logical
Mutual
Only
Promises
Reason
Stand
Sufficient
Together
Two
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Why
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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
Abortion
Been
Done
Even
Has-Been
Heard
Much
New
New York
States
Very
Where
York
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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
Admitted
Any
Background
Behave
Common
Conduct
Deny
Ethical
Ethics
How
Law
Men
Principles
Reasonably
See
Try
Well
Who
You
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It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
~ Frederick Pollock
Agreed
Any
Assumed
Cannot
Common
Common Law
Converse
Equity
Following
Law
More
Than
Whenever
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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
Apt
Definitions
Doubts
Fail
How
Learned
Litigation
Mean
New
Odd
Persons
See
Terms
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It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
~ Frederick Pollock
Bad
Codes
Harm
How
Little
Strange
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Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
~ Frederick Pollock
Justice
Medieval
Thing
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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
Action
Between
Created
Debt
Difference
Duties
Forms
Fundamental
Fundamental Difference
Ignore
Imposed
Law
Parties
Pleading
Taken
Test
Will
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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
~ Frederick Pollock
Common
Common Law
Knows
Lady
Law
Learn
Old
Old Lady
Our
She
Something
Still
Telling
Though
Very
Wise
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So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
~ Frederick Pollock
Better
Far
General
General Rule
Go
Hands
Monopoly
Necessary
Pretty
Public
Rule
Socialists
Think
Where
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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
~ Frederick Pollock
Artistic
Does
Find
Function
Genuine
Height
His
Lawyer
Peculiar
Reached
Scope
Therein
Vocation
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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
~ Frederick Pollock
Contract
I Think
Negative
Oldest
Theory
Think
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The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
~ Frederick Pollock
Art
Distinct
Law
Perfectly
Practice
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Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
~ Frederick Pollock
About
Before
Found
He
Heard
Knows
Life
Man
Out
Say
Something
Suspects
Uneasy
Until
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Frederick Pollock
Profession
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BirthDate
10 December, 1845
DeathDate
18 January, 1937
Country
United Kingdom
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