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• That’s the thing about us lawyers – if at all possible, we will consume each other.

  Christopher Darden

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• How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.

  Lucille Ball

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• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they’re not the only players in this game.

  Floyd Abrams

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• I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

  Floyd Abrams

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• If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

  Julius Caesar

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• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  Aaron Allston

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• John Rizzo is a classic D.O. lawyer. He understands the culture, the intelligence business. He admires the case officers. And they trust him to work out tough issues in the gray with them. He is like a corporate lawyer who knows how to make the deal happen.

  A. John Radsan

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

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• 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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• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

  Mario Puzo

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• A lawyer’s dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  Samuel Butler

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Sir Walter Scott

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• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Grimke

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