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We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know…
Quote byNathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley · 1828–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: In re Marquis of Ailesbury's Settled Estates (1891), L. J. Rep. 61 C. D. 123..
English (original)
We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from handing over a great family estate to a mortgagee in possession, whose only chance of getting his money is to sacrifice the interests of everybody to money-getting.
— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
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