Abraham Lincoln: "Big enough to be inconsistent."

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Gene, in Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin writes, "He (William Howard Russell) was particularly taken with Kate Chase, whom he described as “very attractive, agreeable, and sprightly.” Kate was in her element, talking “easily, with a low melodious voice…her head tilted slightly upward, a faint, almost disdainful smile upon her face, as if she were a titled English lady posing in a formal garden for Gainsborough or Reynolds.”