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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

— Felix Frankfurter

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The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

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