The Confessions of Artemas Quibble
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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers" by Arthur Cheney Train. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #20451.
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Yes. All 2316 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #20451 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #20451, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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