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Even Voltaire's father could not make a lawyer out of a genius. To be…
Quote byClarence Darrow · 1857–1938
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Voltaire (1916).
English (original)
Even Voltaire's father could not make a lawyer out of a genius. To be a good lawyer, one must have a mind and a disposition to venerate the past; a respect for precedents; a belief in the wisdom and the sanctity of the dead. Voltaire had genius, imagination, feeling, and poetry, and these gifts always have been, and always will be, incompatible with the practice of law.
— Clarence Darrow
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