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1 Address by Elihu Root at the Annual Dinner of the New York State Bar Association, January 15, 1916 1916

handle is hein.beal/ifgrs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS BY Elihu Root, at the Annual Dinner .of the New York State Bar Association, January -15, 1916 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Bar: It must have occurred to all of you that it is rather hard to sit through a long evening and hear praise to one's face. I hope you don't think that I really believe it all. It is a well founded maxim that in practical affairs of life it is wise not to put so much stress on the grammatical construction of what people say as to try to divine the reason why they say it, and so I have taken all these things which have been said about me with a feeling that they denote the kindliness of old friendship and the generous warmth of loyalty to an old companion at the bar. The world is apt to be all praise or all blame, and sometimes all praise alternating with all blame, and when the members of a profession or a calling impute to one of their number a multitude of noble qualities it is fair to infer that they are really expressing their own conception of what their profession is and what they would like their fellow members to be; and in that conception of the true spirit and the noble char- acter and the exalted purpose of the profession of the law, I am with you with all my heart.

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