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A man acting for himself may indulge his own caprices, and consider what is convenient or agreeable to himself, as well as what is strictly prudent, and his prudential motives cannot afterwards be separated from the others which may have governed him.

— Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale Attorney-General v. Kerr (1840)

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