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You can kind of fill in the gap.
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Here we have smaller bankers, not in size but in money,
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industrialists, merchants,
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these kinds of people, and Daumier's,
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the great caricaturist's, least favorite people--lawyers.
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Lawyers rise up rapidly in popular esteem and usefulness.
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The middle class likes to see themselves as useful.
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You find lawyers reaching in there and, slowly, doctors.
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Remember doctors had very low social status.
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They were sort of a cut above the bad pun I make in what you read,
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ordinary field surgeons during Napoleonic battles,
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some of whom were butchers or people that knew how to wield a knife.