So you're the little woman who ...  So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.
Abraham Lincoln
on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wordridden: wordridden:
To be enamored of words without understanding their meaning; to react to words rather than arguments; as in the fishwife who tolerated being called a thief, a liar, and a prostitute, but objected to being called a parallelogram.
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