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Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.
David Graham Phillips
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
David Graham Phillips
Born:
October 31, 1867
Died:
January 24, 1911
(aged 43)
Bio:
David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.
Known for:
Great God Success
The Price She Paid
Susan Lenox Her Rise and Fall
Light Fingered Gentry (1907)
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