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"Old age can be very frightening, Commander. A lawyer whose mind is apt to go blank isn't just inefficient, he's dangerous."

— P. D. James A Certain Justice (1997)

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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"It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."

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