Ocupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Life: February 13, 1892 - October 9, 1954
Birthday: February 13
Death: October 9
But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.
topic: Taken, Men, Self, Barristers