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Abraham Lincoln

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Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
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On popular sovereignty; rejoinder in the Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 13, 1858); reported in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953), vol. 3, p. 279.

 
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