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work of the legal profession, as the intellectual rules have 
been set forth ; but if the lawyer will remember that in prac- 
ticing law he is not only earning a livelihood for himself and 
family but that he is performing a high social service in 
helping to prevent wrong social relations and to readjust 
them so as to make them right after they have become wrong, 
he will never offer his legal services for sale to the highest 
bidder; nor place technicality above justice; nor do anything 
else corrupt, untruthful, or unfair to obtain a victory for a 
client or to make the future law of his country what it ought 
not to be : but instead he will always try to find the best prin- 
ciples that are to be found in the law books, to give the court 
the arguments that he believes to be the best, and in every 
way to do the best he can for his client, for society, and for 
the law. 
