Able Was I, Ere I Saw Elba — Napoleon’s Shortest Speech

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Able was I, ere I saw Elba. It has sense to it; Napoleon was imprisoned on the Isle of Elba, see? He was able, before he was imprisoned there. If you read the sentence backwards, it says exactly the same thing. which is called a Palindrome.

Some possibly familiar Classic Palindromes follow:

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