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Quotation from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The Common Law, Lecture I, opening

Holmes states the method of the whole book.

Citation: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law, Lecture I, opening. (id holmes-the-common-law-q1)

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