I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority. - Patrick O'Brian
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
- Patrick O'Brian
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age eq… - Patrick O'Brian
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age eq…
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me. - Patrick O'Brian
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. - Patrick O'Brian
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. - Patrick O'Brian
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth - Patrick O'Brian
We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, con… - Patrick O'Brian
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, con…
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room - Patrick O'Brian
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a d… - Patrick O'Brian
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a d…
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