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Lawyers Are Like Priests; People Come To Them And Disburden Themselves Of Their Troubles, And Get Consolation, If They Pay Well For It; But There Is One Point In Which They Don't Treat Them Like Priests; They Don't Confess All Their Sins; They Suppress Them, And Often Get Themselves And Their Counsel Into A Scrape By It, That's A Fact.

-Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Lawyers Are Like Priests;

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Lawyers Are Like Priests; People Come To Them And Disburden Themselves Of Their Troubles, And Get Consolation, If They Pay Well For It; But There Is One Point In Which They Don't Treat Them Like Priests; They Don't Confess All Their Sins; They Suppress Them, And Often Get Themselves And Their Counsel Into A Scrape By It, That's A Fact.

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