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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Wizardry
Abraham Lincoln, autobiographical sketch given to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859:
If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.