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The legal system and the lawyers who operate in (and around) it have influenced society and continue to do so today. In this age of the slip-and-fall, ""false"" advertising, and medical ""malpractice,"" it's clear that the quest for justice has not always been easy-it's also been hilarious, poignant, enlightening, and scandalous. Words from renowned lawyers, not-so-renowned lawyers, judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up this collection of over five hundred memorable, bite-sized quotations about the lives of lawyers; the law; landmark cases; and quips, jokes, and humorous sayings. Included in this diverse compendium are quotations by and about lawyers and law: ""The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.""-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ""The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.""-Clarence Darrow ""We do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.""-G. K. Chesterton ""A lawyer will do anything to win a case-sometimes he will even tell the truth.""-Patrick Murray

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Tony Lyons is a publishing and copyright attorney and the publisher of Skyhorse Publishing. He lives and works in New York City.

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