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A citizen and a taxpayer marched into the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, last week, with a bodyguard of lawyers and counselors-at-law.

From Time Magazine Archive

How extravagant soever the fees of counselors-at-law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart