"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."

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Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

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“Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.”
“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
“Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.”
“Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.”
“Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.”
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”

Source : Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”
“We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy.Â And I don't want to be one of those”
“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”

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