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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
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