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The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.