"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." — Charles Lamb

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.

Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

My own belief is that our cause, the cause of justice, and its supporters, will prove stronger in every emergency than the traitor and the foreigner.

Source: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, Volume 1

Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

Source: Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

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