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John Morley: “I tend to harden in my own view, principle and precedent seeming to me alike clear.”

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I tend to harden in my own view, principle and precedent seeming to me alike clear.
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John Morley

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Morley expresses a firm stance on the importance of principle and precedent in decision-making.

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