… [L]onging for certainty and for repose [is] in every human mind. But certainty generally is an illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice

“The Path of the Law,” Harvard Law Review (Feb 1897)
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Citation 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897).