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Success as a lawyer is taken as a sign of barbarian astuteness, since the work is predatory fraud
Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
The lawyer is exclusively occupied with the details of predatory fraud, either in achieving or in checkmating chicanery, and success in the profession is therefore accepted as marking a large endowment of that barbarian astuteness which has always commanded men's respect and fear.
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↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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