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When you hire a boy in my line of work it isn’t like hiring a window-washer and showing him eight windows and saying: “Wash those and you’re through.” You don’t know what I have to go through or over or under to do your job for you. I do it my way. I do my best to protect you and I may break a few rules, but I break them in your favour. The client comes first, unless he’s crooked.

—Philip Marlowe (in Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep)