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Quotes from The Path of the Law — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

1841–1935 United States

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Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The Path of the Law (1897)

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The Path of the Law (1897)

The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts.

The Path of the Law (1897)

When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession.

The Path of the Law (1897)

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The Path of the Law (1897)

For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.

The Path of the Law (1897)

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