Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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"The Path of the Law," Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law on January 8, 1897, reprinted in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 10 (25 March 1897).Oliver Wendell Holmes
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