William Seward : In my opinion...Abraham Lincoln : To which I always listen...William Seward : Or pretend to.Abraham Lincoln : With all three of my ears.
I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer who had a parrot that would wake him each morning crying out 'today's the day the world shall end as scripture has foretold'. And one day, the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet I presume, thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy.
Shall we stop this bleeding?
No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.