The man told you exactly where he got that quote, and *I* showed you that Jack London cited it in his book in 190-Freaking-8, and you are going to come back with the quote is fake? "
Of course it's fake, doesn't sound like Lincoln, but rather like something DiogenesLamp might invent for Lincoln to say.
The source is a decades later collaboration between an old alcoholic associate of Lincoln and a younger publicist eager for a more "modern" Lincoln to sell.
So it's useless.
DiogenesLamp "Yes, Pennsylvanian Jack London was just so stupid that he got pulled in by a fake quote over a 100 years ago, and which other Lincoln references have verified. "
Anyone can get suckered by a fraud, especially if the fraud says exactly what you soooo wish to hear.
And thanks for reminding me of Jack London, one of my favorite authors when I was a boy.
But London never lived in Pennsylvania, nor did his mother.
London's maternal grandfather worked on the Pennsylvania Canal, a part of which goes past my house.
Jack London was born in San Francisco and so far as I can learn never moved east of California.
He was a great adventurer, war correspondent & writer, but also a socialist, animal activist & racist by today's standards.
He made a lot of money but died at age 40 addicted to alcohol & morphine, which killed him.
So Jack London the socialist liked the fake quote from Lincoln sounding just like London himself, not surprising.
