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Ethan Allen

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There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.
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Retort attributed to Allen, during his captivity among the British, commenting after a picture of Washington was hung in a outhouse, in an anecdote told by Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in Lincoln, Vol. 1 (1996) by David Herbert Donald; the documentation on this is scanty, and it conceivably arose as a comical anecdote as early as Lincoln's time.
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It is most appropriately hung. There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.
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As quoted in Strange But True, America : Weird Tales from All 50 States (2004) by John Hafnor, p. 114

 
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