The Story-Life of Lincoln —— A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Selected From All Authentic Sources, and Fitted Together in Order, Forming His Complete Life History

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ISBN: 9781334235368 出版年：2016 页码：185 Wayne Whipple Forgotten Books

Yet his genius made the stories of others his own. They were pat, pithy and to the point. He usually told a story to enforce a truth, to save the time and temper so often lost in arguing. Lincoln's stories rank about midway between Esop's fables and the caricatures of the present day.