Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
Learned HandLife is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned HandEach one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.
Learned HandI shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Learned HandRight knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
Learned HandThe lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.
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