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3. As brave a soldier as he is astute an attorney

Reply to Wonder Why (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 09:23 PM

Oct 2023

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter," as Dashiell Hammett wrote. Talk is notoriously cheap, but I don't think talk is as cheap as the defendant.

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