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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.

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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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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