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Sunday, April 11, 2021

Going to law.

April 11. 

I hear that Judge Minott of Haverhill once told a client, by way of warning, that two millers who owned mills on the same stream went to law about a dam, and at the end of the lawsuit one lawyer owned one mill and the other the other.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 11, 1861
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