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“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.”
Provenance
- Source:
- First Institute.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8d3ff48271e98c0bcb6133ce20e2d9457c504433530016c1c60cd7c254a41442
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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