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"Abraham Lincoln will be remembered for his apt stories as long as it is remembered that he was president of the United States and the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. Indeed, the greatness of the man is revealed in the stories ever ready for expression at the appropriate time. Here is a book of 315 pages, containing about 350 judicious selections of the best stories and anecdotes of the President, many of them appearing here for the first time in a bound volume. They cover almost every range of thought and expression, tragic, comic, and all points intermediate between the two, told in the inimitable manner which identified the man. When the stories are read, with regard for the time of life which they illustrate, one can see the growth and gradual development of a great character. There may be nothing different in the nature of the stories which refer to his early life and career, when he was struggling for recognition and triumph, and those which pertain to his later public life, but the point is different, and through them, as a succession of anecdotes, one can see the building up of a master mind. No one who reads needs an interpreter, and no Lincoln library henceforth will be complete without this volume." -Religious Telescope, Volume 74, 1908 "A sound authority who knew him of old pronounced him 'as good at telling an anecdote as in the '30's.' But the fluent chatterer reined in and became a good listener. He imbibed all the political ruses, and returned home with his quiver full of new and victorious arrows for the Presidential campaign, for his bosom friends urged him to try to gratify that ambition, preposterous when he first felt it attack him." -Henry L. Williams

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Excerpt from The Lincoln Story Book: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Meanwhile his fellow Citizens stupidly tired of this Merry Andrew - they sent him elsewhere to talk other folks to death - to the State House, where he served several terms creditably, but was mainly the fund of Jollity to the lobby and the chartered Jester of the law makers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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