Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar In the spare moments of many busy professional years this volume has been edited from the best literature of the Old World and the New. Wit, in its finest sense, is wisdom. In its more popular sense, wit is lightning, humor the atmosphere in which it plays; wit - spontaneous, keen, cutting, destructive; humor - creative, sympathetic, broadly human. Dr. Fuller´s remark that a "negro is the image of God cut in ebony," is humorous. Horace Smith´s inversion of it, that the task-master is the image of the devil cut in ivory," is witty. Washington Irving´s skit on the Yankee lawyer, converted on seeing a ghost, and after that never cheating - "except when it was to his own advantage," is humorous; and so is the pathetic appeal of the Irish barrister: "Gentlemen of the jury, think of his poor mother - his only mother." The author believes that the volume contains the best sayings of eminent men, of bench and bar, at home and abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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