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“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 56fd4f0d1f68cf8ff5bedaa3d65eefed96138d4cbcced1e398eef601bd104063
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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