"I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule."

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Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.292

Rufus Choate

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“You canâ€™t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.”
“I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.”

Source : "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.
“Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.”
“Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.”
“I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face”
“In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.”

Source : Song: In Your Eyes Special Mix, 1986
“You don't need the fame to be vital.”
“I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.”

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