This is not a Lincoln quote (few "Lincoln quotes" are really Lincoln
quotes), but rather a proverb. Here is the entry from the Oxford
Dictionary of American Legal Quotations:
He who is always his own counseller will often have a fool for his
client.*
_Port Folio_ (Philadelphia), Aug. 1809. at 132
*The _Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs_ lists this as the earliest
known example of the proverb "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for
his client."
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Fred R. Shapiro Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
and Lecturer in Legal Research ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School Oxford University Press, 1997
e-mail: fred.shapiro@yale.edu ISBN 0-19-509547-2
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