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But he resented any attempt to deprive a client, however much of a n'er-do-well he might be, of all the rights and forms of a legal trial.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of legal rights for all clients, regardless of their character.
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His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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