“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“I cannot properly give advice to anybody. It is very often supposed Judges can give advice, and I therefore take this public opportunity of saying that a Judge cannot do it.”
Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.
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