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Appreciating wit and humor, he relished a good story, especially if it illustrated a truth or strengthened an argument, and he had a vast fund of illustrative anecdote which he used with the happiest effect.
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Blaine notes Lincoln's appreciation for humor and storytelling as a rhetorical tool.
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