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lil  ·  4513 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Do We Love Quotations?

nicely put, Psulli - I checked Lincoln's quote and found a reference to it in a footnote to the Emancipation Proclamation and retweeted in the Gettysberg Address 10 months later.

by the way, I check original sources of quotations. Secondary sources tend to have multiple variants.