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So I think we must be governed by the rule of law for the case nearest like it we can find.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of adhering to legal principles in ambiguous situations.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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