I hate reading old English legal stuff.

But every once in a while I find something that was worth reading. Example:
Follett (one of the two lawyers in a “very important” case before the House of Lords) could not help expressing to his opponent his astonishment at seeing him indulging in so solid and carnal a diet by way of a preparative for the task he was about to enter upon (argue the case), and for which a clear unclouded brain was so essential.
“As to the clearness of brain,” said Maule (the opposing counsel and glutton), “I find that mine is clear already. The truth is, I am striving to bring my intellect down to the level with the capacity of those idiotic judges.”

-Mr. Serjeant [B. Coulson] Robinson, Bench and Bar, 158-159 (4th ed. 1894).