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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on thinking

‘The Path of the Law’, address at Boston University School of Law (8 January 1897)

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