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I confess that when I am sought to be driven to a conclusion which appears to me unreasonable and unjust, I at once suspect the validity of the premises, even if I can detect no flaw in the reasoning from them.

— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley In re Holford (1894)

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