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I saw Mr. Lincoln a number of times during the canvass for his second election. The characteristic which struck me most was his superabundance of common sense.

— Chauncey Depew Testimony XXIV in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (1886)

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