"A good lawyer knows the law; a..." - Quote by Mark Twain
A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
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“After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere”
“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
“Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”
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“All men in the abstract are just and good.”
“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”
“All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.”