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Old 12-28-2008, 05:33 PM
SWTXBelle SWTXBelle is offline
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I believe it as an aphorism which pre-dates Lincoln, but he was the first famous person to use it, and thus it is sometimes attributed to him. I've also seen it attributed to Mark Twain.
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