“Professional advice in England is confined to legal advice.”
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Slade v. Tucker (1880), L. R. 14 C. D. 827.
“In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.”
“Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #67
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