A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own;. . . This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

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