He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

Bryce Courtenay
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More Quotes By Bryce Courtenay
  1. It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

  2. Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

  3. Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

  4. The imagination is always the best torturer.

  5. Never take advice from a donkey.

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