 | Law - 1912 - 446 pages
...Who's been tamperin' wi' the law sin' last year?" — Ex. On the Profession of Law. By Abraham Lincoln. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | Harlan Fiske Stone - Law - 1915 - 262 pages
...had been placed upon the calendar. "Discourage litigation," said Abraham Lincoln to the young lawyer. "Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity... | |
 | Harlan Fiske Stone - Law - 1915 - 262 pages
...your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As...a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity to be a good man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.... | |
 | Henry Bascom Rankin - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 476 pages
...young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a go6d man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - Presidents - 1917 - 406 pages
...for a lecture, to beginners at the bar, he wrote, after perhaps fifteen years of legal experience: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." 9 How earnestly Lincoln labored to reck his own rede, judges,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Literature - 1917 - 404 pages
...failure in advance. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you cart. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can An Evening with Lincoln... | |
 | 1917 - 100 pages
...physician presents an "easy mark" it were well to bear in mind his immortal words upon this subject. "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser, in fees, expense and waste of time. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Legal ethics - 1917 - 656 pages
...condemned." 11 See note 2, ante. u " 'Discourage litigation' was his [Lincoln's] advice to lawyers. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | American Judicature Society - Justice, Administration of - 1917 - 782 pages
...to Provide for Conciliation Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise zvhenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loserin fees, expenses and waste of time. As a peace maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity.... | |
 | Samuel Scoville - 1918 - 100 pages
...that my hands are dirty, and that I have gone away to wash them," was the answer that he sent back. ' 'Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." So LINCOLN IN EABLY MANHOOD. THE NEW YOPK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR,... | |
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good... 
