This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice, before I finished guying it fore and aft and to either side.
If he has destroyed the shears, I shall do nothing except begin over again."
"We will," I asserted, still savagely, for the destruction of my beloved shears had hit me hard.
"I believe part of one's professional life includes a responsibility, even a commitment, to contribute to it in an effort to make it better,"
Shear said upon assuming the Bar presidency when he was 43 years old.