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Quote of the monthWitty, illuminating and sometimes intelligent quotes about the legal profession.
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Charles Lamb

published on 05.12.2009
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
- Charles Lamb
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

published on 13.11.2009
“The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Edmund Burke

published on 06.11.2009
“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less.”
- Edmund Burke
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Robert Frost

published on 13.10.2009
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
- Robert Frost
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Richard J. Barnet

published on 02.09.2009
“Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.”
- Richard J. Barnet
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Charles Dickens

published on 15.08.2009
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”
- Charles Dickens
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John Quincy Adams

published on 04.07.2009
“Whoever tells the best story wins.”
- John Quincy Adams
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Justice Frankfurter

published on 13.06.2009
“The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure.”
- Justice Frankfurter
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John Galsworthy

published on 05.05.2009
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
- John Galsworthy
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

published on 07.04.2009
“The duty to keep a contract at common law means a prediction that you must pay damages if you don’t keep it, – and nothing else.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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