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“

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean fingernails.

”

— John Mortimer, barrister and writer, in A Voyage Round My Father (1971)

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"Mortimer, John" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Susan Ratcliffe. Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 22 September 2010. [1]