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Abe Lincoln, theater critic
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“Our American Cousin” is a terrible play. Abe Lincoln took the easy way out… Read it. See if you can make it to act III, scene 2.
Actually he should have walked out. He lasted until Act III scene 2. This is taking politeness to an unheard of level.
“Mr. President, I intend to shoot you in the back of the head.”
“Do what you must, Booth. I never walk out on a play. It’s uncouth.”
Had he walked out he’d be remembered as a harsh theatrical critic. Secondarily as the president who won the civil war.
This is the funniest line in Our American Cousin: “Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap…”
Even with the word sockdologizing in it it’s not a funny line.
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