Quote#Happiness
So venerable, so majestic, is this living temple of justice, this…
Quote bySir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet · 1845–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Oxford Law Studies', a public lecture delivered in the University of Oxford (22 May 1886), quoted in Frederick Pollock, Oxford Lectures and Other Discourses (1890), p. 111.
English (original)
So venerable, so majestic, is this living temple of justice, this immemorial and yet freshly growing fabric of the Common Law, that the least of us is happy who hereafter may point to so much as one stone thereof and say, The work of my hands is there.
— Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
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