“Well, for people that like that sort of thing, I think it is just about the sort of thing they would like.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Attributed to "an American President" in Ármin Vámbéry (1884), All the Year Round. It more likely originates in a spoof testimonial that Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) wrote in an advertisement in 1863:
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