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A
lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker
to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest
man, and a lawyer."
The
inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing,
for passers-by would tend to think that three men were buried under
the stone. However he suggested an alternative. He would inscribe,
"Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer."
"That
way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would
be certain to remark, 'That's Strange.'"
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