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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 929
AUTHOR: Robert Traver (1903–91)
QUOTATION: Judges, like people, may be divided roughly into four classes: judges with neither head nor heart—they are to be avoided at all costs; judges with head but no heart—they are almost as bad; then judges with heart but no head—risky but better than the first two; and finally, those rare judges who possess both head and a heart—thanks to blind luck, that’s our judge.
ATTRIBUTION: ROBERT TRAVER, Anatomy of a Murder, chapter 17, pp. 313–14 (1958).
SUBJECTS: Judges