“Morals are three-quarters manners.”

— Felix Frankfurter

Source: Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), P. 12. In the interview, Phillips quotes the line to Frankfurter from a letter written by the Justice, and Frankfurter attributes the phrase to a friend named Matthew Arnold.

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American judge 1882–1965

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