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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (39108)	6/4/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm always in a quandary when people show me things like that. Should I act like I think it's funny, even though I really don't, just to show that I am a good sport? Should I tell the person to go f@ck themselves, which I what I really want to do? Usually I try to think of something witty to say. My usual snappy comeback is to say something like, "everyone hates lawyers, until they need one." Which, of course, isn't true. Everyone always hates lawyers. Beats me how I became the Princess of Darkness just because I help people with problems. Ah, f@ck it. I don't need this.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (39108)	6/5/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

No, why should you edit your thoughts. It's a free country. Here it is, just as you posted it. Free speech, and all that. A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him. Laurence J. Peter What's the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can't be a great man! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., on his son's plans to attend law school They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers. Lee Iacocca, on the lack of litigation among Japanese businesses The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. John Sterling The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry VI, Part 2 There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. Melvin Belli When there is a rift in the lute, the business of the lawyer is to widen the rift and gather the loot. Arthur Garfield Hays The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. Judge Irving Kaufman Litigation is the basic legal right which guarantees every corporation its decade in court. David Porter I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. Will Rogers (1879-1935) They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs aint got any right to his property. Mark Twain (1835-1910) A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) attempting to persuade his son to become a lawyer