He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ev…

Abraham Lincoln
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1992). The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, Plume
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