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Charles Dickens: ?If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.” --Charles Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop ch. 56, at 350 (1841) The full passage, p. 349-50: It's a very pleasant world we live in, yes sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).