Tut, man, decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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When asked by an army officer, appointed governor of a west Indies island and who had no experience in law, how to apply the law.
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Quoted by John Cordy Jeaffreson in A Book About Lawyers, Volume 1 (1867).William Murray Mansfield
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