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The laws alone are they that always speak with all persons, high or low, in one and the same impartial voice. The law knows no favourites.

— Robert Atkyns Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

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Pleading is an exact setting forth of the truth.

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The best men are but men, and are sometimes transported with passion.

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It is the more fit for the Supreme Court to give some certain rule in it that may regulate and guide the judgment of inferior Courts.

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There is no providence or wisdom of man, nor of any council of men that can foresee and provide for all events and variety of cases, that will or may arise upon the making of a new law.

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We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us.

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