MEN OVER FORTY
President Lincoln turned down an applicant for a job and gave as his reason: I don’t like his face.” One of the Cabinet members indicated that he did not think this was a sufficient and satisfactory explanation. Lincoln disagreed: “Every man over forty is responsible for his face.” Taken From The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, editor, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1985
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