Sublime

for the legal profession involves legal

brevity which is the soul of wit.

The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things—rather than the things themselves—that cause most of our trouble.

Hence, the doctrine of precedent is the threefold doctrine of security, liberty, and equality - Security, in that it leads to the expectation that disputes will be decided in the future as they have been decided in the past; Liberty, in that subordinate individuals will not be subject to the capricious will of superiors; Equality, in that all indiv

young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.

Nothing has been so senselessly underrated as wit, even when it seems to be the mere wit of words. It is dismissed as merely verbal; but, in fact, it is more solemn writing that is merely verbal, or rather merely verbose. A joke is always a thought; it is grave and formal writing that can be quite literally thoughtless.