regarding the Lincoln anecdote:

that is not from the Lincoln-Douglass debates; it is related about a
comment he made about a tedious history of Greece.  you can search it out
in google books but it's hard to find a specific source; the anecdote has
the sound of a later remembrance that may or may not be authentic.  there
were MANY of these kinds of stories told about Lincoln, often decades after
his death; and it is often hard to tell the true from the false.  This
sounds to me like something Lincoln might say;  but then again memory is a
funny thing, isn't it??  May be impossible to confirm, in my view ... -hb

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Denis Donovan <[log in to unmask]>
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> I would imagine that at least some list members are familiar with the =
> Lincoln-Douglas debates, given the focus on that general period, so I'm =
> hoping someone can point me to the exchange I'm interested in. Here is =
> my *recollection* of the exchange that dates from a good 50 years ago, =
> so it may not be very accurate.
>
> Douglas had just extolled a particular thinker and said something like =
> this: "No man has ever dived more deeply into the fountain of knowledge =
> and learning."
>
> "No," said Lincoln, "nor come up dryer."
>
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Denis Donovan
>
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> Alexandr Romanovich Luria in:
> Goldberg, Elkhanon (2001). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the =
> Civilized Mind.
> New York: Oxford University Press, p. 16.
>
> Perhaps Goldberg should have listened to Luria . . .
>



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