"[Lawyers] can make the worse appear the better cause, as though they were fresh from Leontine schools, and have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent."
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Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying", Intentions (New York: Brentano's, 1905).
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