“Sir Impey Biggs: Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.”

—  Dorothy L. Sayers , book Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness (1926)

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