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 passersby 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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