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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.”

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