"Personally, I detest any attempt to bring the law into maxims. Maxims are invariably wrong, that is, they are so general and large that they always include something which is not intended to be included."
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William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, M.R., Yarmouth v. France (1887), L. J. 57 Q. B. 9.
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