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The English Bar is in a very great degree tedious, and, to say the…
Quote byHenry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux · 1778–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to John Loch (20 August 1802), quoted in Brougham and His Early Friends: Letters to James Loch, 1798–1809, Vol. I (1908), p. 344.
English (original)
The English Bar is in a very great degree tedious, and, to say the least of it, somewhat uncertain. I look forward with no small horror to five years' dull, unvaried drudgery, which must be undergone to obtain the privilege of drudging still harder, among a set of disagreeable people of brutal manners and confined talents.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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