love and pity of ourselves should persuade us to forbear it as disquietful, incommodious , and mischievous to us

His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.

The Swan and the Dickey-bird: A Fable.

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