The quote asked for is obviously a paraphrase. The Oxford Dictionary of
American Legal Quotations has the following similar quote from Franklin:
In my Travels I once saw a Sign call'd _The Two Men at Law_; One of them
was painted on one Side, in a melancholy Posture, all in Rags, with this
Scroll, _I have lost my Cause_. The other was drawn capering for Joy, on
the other Side, with these Words, _I have gain'd my Suit_; but he was
stark naked.
Benjamin Franklin, _Poor Richard's Almanack_, 1742, in _Papers of
Benjamin Franklin_ 2:339 (Leonard W. Labaree ed. 1960)
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