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 (1872). Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.354
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