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Would you say 'most,' I replied, when you consider that there is

a further stage of the evil in which a man is not only a

life-long litigant, passing all his days in the courts, either as

plaintiff or defendant, but is actually led by his bad taste to

pride himself on his litigiousness; he imagines that he is a

master in dishonesty; able to take every crooked turn, and

wriggle into and out of every hole, bending like a withy and

getting out of the way of justice: and all for what?-in order to

gain small points not worth mentioning, he not knowing that so to

order his life as to be able to do without a napping judge is a

far higher and nobler sort of thing. Is not that still more

disgraceful?

Yes, he said, that is still more disgraceful.