"[I]t is revolting to have no better reason……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past."

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