A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS A picture is worth a thousand words. During the 1860 election Republican presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln was hoping this common expression was factual. Lincoln told one supporter, "By the lesson of the past, and the united voice of all discreet friends, I am neither (to) write or speak a word for the public." According to a presidential historian, Arthur Schlesinger, "Lincoln was the least active of the four candidates …showed first 75 words of 1567 total…

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