"I never tire of reading Tom Paine."
— Thomas Paine
January 1, 1970
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Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in A Literary History of the American People (1931) by Charles Angoff, p. 270. James M. Cornelius, Ph.D., the curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, says he "find[s] nothing that puts those words into his mouth" and describes the quote as "an exaggeration."
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Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in A Literary History of the American People (1931) by Charles Angoff, p. 270. James M. Cornelius, Ph.D., the curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, says he "find[s] nothing that puts those words into his mouth" and describes the quote as "an exaggeration."