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Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by…

Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858), On popular sovereignty; rejoinder in the Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (13 October 1858); reported in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953), vol. 3, p. 279.

English (original)

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

— Abraham Lincoln

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