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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Louis Nizer
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Louis Nizer
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 6
Died: 1994
Died: November 10
Jurist
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London
England
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
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Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, We have won, and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... You have lost.
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A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
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