ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting."

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Accomplice	Another	Assent	Assenting
Associated	Attorney	Attorneys	Commanded
Complicity	Crime	Criminal	Defends
Guilty	Having	Hitherto	Knowing
Knowledge	Matter	Offered	Position
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