Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 371

WAS LINCOLN AWKWARD, OR WHAT?
Whenever Lincoln, particularly as a young man, attended social functions he was extremely ill at ease around coquettish young women. He did not understand them, felt stupid in their presence, was sure they all thought him ugly. Consequently he either acted the clown or sat with his hands hidden under his knees. Except for his friend Ann Rutledge, Lincoln's closest female relationships as a young man thus far had been with married women who tended to mother him.

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