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No degree of antiquity can give sanction to a usage bad in itself.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

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A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.

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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

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