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But there is no fear for the Irish bar. Some may choose those dark and slippery paths; but difficult and dangerous to public virtue as is confessedly the position of the Profession in this country, they are difficulties and dangers that every day will abate; and I cannot bring myself to believe that there will be found many who aspire to station at the bar, to prefer a dependence on party that degrades, or Governments that mock expectation, rather than upon their own honest exertions—upon that self-reliance that invigorates, and that love of honourable distinction that ennobles all our efforts.
