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Edward Levi Quotes

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi

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Public Servant Quotes
Category:
American Publicservant Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 26, 1911
Date of Death:
March 7, 2000
Nationality:
American
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