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You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

— Jean Giraudoux

Vous êtes avocat! Vous avez le devoir au contraire de recourir à toutes les ruses pour défendre vos clients. Au mensonge. A la calomnie.

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