A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  • -- Sir Walter Scott 司各特

没有历史和文学的律师是机械师,只是一个泥瓦匠;如果他对这些有一些了解,他可以大胆地自称为建筑师。

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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

这与事实、法律和法官的身份有关。所以我认为律师有时夸大了他们在输赢中的作用。律师确实扮演了一个角色,而且是主要角色,但他们并不是这场游戏中的唯一玩家。

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

直到现在,在文献中还没有意识到的是,仅仅描述过去某件事被测试的严重程度本身就包含了归纳假设,甚至是对过去的陈述。

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

真正聪明的人现在想成为律师或记者。