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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.

Louis Nizer

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Louis Nizer
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 6
Died: 1994
Died: November 10
Jurist
Lawyer
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London
England
Else
Felicity
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Brilliance
Everything
Thorough
Work
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Trials
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