“[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.”

— Anthony Trollope

The New Zealander (1965), p. 63; written 1855-6, published posthumously 1965

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English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

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