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The Higher Truth

July 2024
1min read

Shakespeare was mild about the lawyers (“The Business of America,” September). Consider the New Testament, Luke 11-46: (And He said) “Woe to you lawyers also!/ For you load men with burdens hard to bear/ And you yourselves do not touch the/ Burdens with one of your fingers.”

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