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From The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

`Lawyers are all right, I guess---but it doesn't appeal to me ...
Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you
know if you did it because you really _wanted_ to save guys' lives, or
you did it because what you _really_ wanted to do was be a terrific
lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you
in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody,
the way it is in the dirty movies?  How would you know you weren't
being a phoney?  The trouble is, you _wouldn't_.'
		-- J.D. Salinger, _The Catcher in the Rye_, pp. 178-9

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