Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
— Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays (2010)
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