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Who Said This?
10-18-2023, 02:49 PM,
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No googling please.

Who said this about Abraham Lincoln?

"Lincoln could not hold a lengthy conversation with a lady – was not sufficiently educated & intelligent in the female line to do so."
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10-18-2023, 03:02 PM,
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RE: Who Said This?
Mary Owens?
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10-18-2023, 04:52 PM,
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Excellent guess, Dave, but it was not she.
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10-18-2023, 05:11 PM,
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Mary McClellan?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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10-18-2023, 05:42 PM,
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Herndon ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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10-18-2023, 05:58 PM,
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Dennis Hanks
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10-18-2023, 06:17 PM,
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Michael, Gene, and Anita...these are all logical answers but none is correct.
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10-18-2023, 09:59 PM,
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Hannah Armstrong?

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-19-2023, 04:35 AM,
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Nope, not Hannah.
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10-19-2023, 09:31 AM,
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Was it somebody from New Salem?
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10-19-2023, 09:54 AM,
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No, but the correct answer didn't live too far from there.
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10-19-2023, 11:49 AM,
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RE: Who Said This?
How about Nancy Green?
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10-19-2023, 12:20 PM,
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Nope, not Nancy Green. But you have the correct gender of the right answer.
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10-19-2023, 01:12 PM,
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Elizabeth Edwards?
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10-19-2023, 02:02 PM,
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Kudos, Scott!! Yes, the correct answer is Elizabeth Edwards.
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