Word: client
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remember well an upright client who said to me once that in business one could not help cracking the Golden Rule, but he tried not to break it. He was in the main managing his own property and that of his family, and he would have found it much harder to live up to his principles if he had been conducting his affairs for the benefit of a multitude of stockholders with whom he never came into contact, and to whom he could, therefore, not explain his position...
...Parker's mind the duty of a lawyer is not to his client at the expense of the courts or of justice, of which the courts are but the visible symbol; but he must at all times have in view the rights of his case, its effect on others, and the precedent which a decision inevitably establishes. The temptation of a man just entering the field of law is to accept the first opportunity presented, but he has no right to "win a position by the payment of a price which he will ever afterwards regret...