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-{{a|devil|[[File:Secret sauce.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{maxim|The quotidian is a utility, not an asset.}}[[Legal eagle]]s ''love'' the idea that standard, [[boilerplate]], tedious terms that make up the lion’s share of commercial legal discourse should be regarded some sort of secret sauce — a spell; magick; a differentiating factor, and not as the common utility they actually should be.
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-It is a common enough instinct. ''Everyone'' — not just lawyers, come to think of it — likes to believe herself special, privy to something critical; dangerous; ''delicate'' — information that, should it fall into the wrong hands, may wreak great ill upon its owner or the poor unsuspecting random.
 If we were to see the [[Boilerplate Anatomy|standard facilitating text]] by which our clients tether their fortunes to each other not as a kind of magic, but as a free, common, public ''resource'' this would ''not'' put battalions of [[legal eagle]]s out of work, which seems to be their operating assumption.