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Note from page 632: 23. David Davis is quoted as saying that AL's humor was simulated and that his jokes and stories were meant to "whistle off sadness." John M. Scott states that Lincoln's humor seemed to be "put on" and that it "did not properly belong there" (Lamon, 479).