That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought n…

Thomas Jefferson
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That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, p.50
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