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I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. — Jonathan Swift · 1726They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. — Thomas More · 1516Travel writing2 quotes
I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. — Jonathan Swift · 1726A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. — Samuel Johnson · 1773Comedy1 quote
Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. — Elle's Father · 2001Comedy (film)1 quote
Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. — Elle's Father · 2001Comedy (play)1 quote
Good counselors lack no clients. — William Shakespeare · 1616History (play)1 quote
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare · 1594Philosophical literature1 quote
An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection. — Henry Peter Brougham · 1820Political literature1 quote
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. — Thomas More · 1516