“A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.”

—  George Sutherland

Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, 388 (1926)

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Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States … 1862–1942

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