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Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote by Emanuel Hertz
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“Young Bob Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth . . . were cutting up in the office, and Lincoln reproved them. Bob replied by quoting the well-known couplet

A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

"So it is," said Lincoln; "that's the difference between the wise man and a fool, who relishes it all the time.”
Emanuel Hertz, Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote