“He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)
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