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As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

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We cannot escape history.

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Human-nature will not change.

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I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

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