The ma- xim of day-break near a toll-station. It takes its origin from the attempt of one (say, a cartman who with the intention of avoiding a toll takes at night an unfrequented road, but unfortunately finds him- self at day-break near that very toll- station, and is obliged to pay the toll which he studiously tried to avoid. Thus the maxim is used to denote the occurrence of that which one studiously tries to...