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John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. June 1751 – 13. January 1838   •   Other names John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
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“I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument.”

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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, related by Scott in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79.

“I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.”

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In Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 350

“It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.”

John Scott

Sheldon v. Goodrich, 8 Ves. 481, 497 (1803)

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