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As I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man's apprehensions, that competition from new races will cut deeper than working men's disputes and will test whether we can hang together or can fight.
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"Law and the Court", speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York (15 February 1913).

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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