The lawyers truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. – Azel Backus
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. – William Cavendish
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains. – Marcel Proust
