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“Mastering the lawless science of our law,-- That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.”
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- Source:
- Aylmer's Field.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87b19a806c3b909aa43451660fd38c2797c93b0820ff9062bb2f6cda556bdec6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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