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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1498 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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You have heard the story, haven’t you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it. His reply was that if it was not for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, response to a friend from Springfield asking how he liked being president, c. 1861.—Emanuel Hertz, Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote, pp. 258–59 (1939). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Presidency |
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