Lincoln Never Said This

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Professor David Parker has located a citation dated October 29, 1886
> in the Milwaukee Daily Journal. Here is a link to a description:
> http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html

The professor writes,

"… _like how_ Mason 'Parson' Weems invented stories about George Washington."

"Like how"? Why not simply, "like"?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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