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He took his clients into his affection as if they had been his own brethren or children, and seemed always to hate to be compelled to make any charge for his services, however successful.
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Hoar describes a lawyer's deep empathy and reluctance to charge clients for services.
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It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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