“Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” – Maya Angelou

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