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Abraham Lincoln, a great lawyer as well as a great President, was fond of asking, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” When his victim would innocently answer “five,” he would reply that the victim had it wrong: “Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”
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Lincoln was not only great, he was also greatly good.
The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
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