Spok, please note that DiogenesLamp clips off the final sentence. This is the easy “tell” that he is not being completely honest. It is an earmark of a Lost Causer.
You are an @$$.
Yeah, i'm trying to hide it from him. That's why I told him exactly where it came from.
You imagine things that your own mind manufactures.
If you were in my presence, I would have hit you in the mouth for suggesting I was being dishonest.
I just grabbed the paragraph the way I found it. Copy and Paste. I don't even know what the last sentence was.
https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/letter-to-horace-greeley-august-22-1862/
If you want to blame someone for leaving off the last sentence, blame the guy who created that page.