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The tricks of advocacy are not only no part of the advocate's duties, but they are more likely to repel than to attract the hearers.
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Hoar argues that the tricks of advocacy are not part of an advocate's responsibilities and can be counterproductive.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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.
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Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
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