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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

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When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
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Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
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Don't be consistent but be simply true.
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Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.
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