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Lincoln’s skills as a debater may have been honed by Mentor Graham, whose forte as a teacher was elocution. The schoolmaster would have his charges repeat a sentence twenty or more times until they had delivered it properly. Quite possibly he had Lincoln perform such exercises.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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