"Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion."
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Joseph Yates, J., dissenting, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,379; Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 17.
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