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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

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John Mortimer

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

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There is always time for failure

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Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

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Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

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We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

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

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