E nos Estados Unidos havia um presidente que adorava contar histórias... Abraham Lincoln

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E nos Estados Unidos havia um presidente que adorava contar histórias... Abraham Lincoln

"Lincoln loved to tell stories. Anyone who met with him commented on his endless supply of anecdotes and jokes. Count Adam Gurowski, a Polish exile w...ho worked in the State Department, observed, “In the midst of the most stirring and exciting — nay, death-giving — news, Mr. Lincoln has always a story to tell.” Ralph Waldo Emerson found it delightful: “When he has made his remark, he looks up at you with a great satisfaction, & shows all his white teeth, & laughs.” Walt Whitman saw something else in Lincoln’s storytelling; he thought it was “a weapon which he employ’d with great skill.”

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