It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of powe… - Robert Payne

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It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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