"He who desires to obtain a considerable portion of immediate applause, has two well-known, and well-trodden paths, before him. "The first is, to be a zealot for some particular and powerful party; to panegyrize its leaders; attack its opponents; place its principles and practices in the fairest possible light; and labour to bring odium upon … Continue reading James Mill on two easy paths to literary fame
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Bentham on lawyers
"It is the people’s interest that delay, vexation and expense of procedure should be as small as possible:—it is the advocate’s that they should be as great as possible: viz. expense in so far as his profit is proportioned to it; factitious vexation and delay, in so far as inseparable from the profit-yielding part of … Continue reading Bentham on lawyers
Notes in the Margins of the Days 