ONE PARDON ENOUGH
As Lincoln was walking down a corridor in the War Department building, an army officer in a hurry barged straight into him. When the man saw who it was, he offered, “ten thousand pardons.” “One is quite enough,” said Lincoln, adding, “I wish the whole army would charge like that!” Taken From The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, editor, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1985
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