“A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."”

—  Learned Hand

"The Preservation of Personality" commencement address at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (2 June 1927); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 32.
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American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872–1961

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