From
“Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
August 23
As a lawyer, Lincoln
often discouraged people from bringing unnecessary lawsuits. Once, a man wanted
him to bring a suit for $2.50 against a penniless man, and Lincoln could not
talk him out of it. Lincoln charged him a retainer of $10.00, won the case,
kept $5.00 for himself and gave the other $5.00 to the penniless defendant who
promptly paid the $2.50 he owed and kept the rest for himself. Thus everyone
involved won including the angry client who, though he paid dearly for it, felt
his revenge vindicated.
‘How much pain they
have cost us, the evils which have never happened.’
- Thomas Jefferson
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