“It seemed a wonderful thing to me to be a member of a great Faculty whose history and traditions went back to the earliest times and to be entitled to exercise a profession which I then thought and still think to require the highest gifts of mind and character for its worthy pursuit.”

—  Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 33

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