The Worst Fault Of The Working Classes

I Had Inherited What My Father Called The Art Of The Advocate, Or The Irritating Habit Of Looking For The Flaw In Any Argument.

The Officers Of The Branch Of The Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) Have A Discouraging Club Tie, On Which A Book Is Depicted Being Cut In Half By A Larger Pair Of Scissors.

I Found Criminal Clients Easy And Matrimonial Clients Hard. Matrimonial Clients Hate Each Other So Much And Use Their Children To Hurt Each Other In Beastly Ways. Murderers Have Usually Killed The One Person In The World That Was Bugging Them And They're Usually Quite Peaceful And Agreeable.

The Secret Of Good Health And Happiness Is To Have Rather Small Illnesses Throughout Your Life Which You Can Rely On To Stop You Doing Anything You Don't Want To Do.

The People Look Forbidding, Solemn, Marked By That Impossible Ideal, Communism, Which, Like Christianity, Seemed To Demand Too Much Of Humanity And, Falling Into The Wrong Hands, Led Too Easily To Horrible Brutality.