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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

— Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

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My duty is, as a Judge, to be governed by fixed rules and former precedents.

Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

It is the privilege of a trader in a free country, in all matters not contrary to law, to regulate his own mode of carrying it on according to his own discretion and choice.

Hilton v. Eckersley (1856)

I apprehend that you may put a leading question to an unwilling witness on the examination in chief at the discretion of the Judge; but you may always put a leading question in cross-examination, whether a witness be unwilling or not.

Parkin v. Moon (1836)

The Courts of law are not provided at the public expense, and were not intended by those who so provided them, for the settlement of any but differences which do arise in the ordinary course of business.

Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Human nature is imperfect.

Howard v. Gosset (1844)

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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

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