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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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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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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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