Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...dangerous thing, and though it may bewilder for the moment, like the ignis fatui, it leads on in a sort of shadow dance without any culminating force. Your popular, because politic, man in college seldom becomes the really popular and praiseworthy citizen, the beloved minister, the trusted and honest lawyer, or the most relied-upon physician. Nor is he always the most trusted in society; he is apt to wish to be all things to all men, and for this reason there will be many who refuse to confide in him. He is the surface man of his time...