• I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

    Edward Everett: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
    Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”