Quote by Felix Frankfurter
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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Constitution
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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Freedom
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! – Alexander Alekhine

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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran

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