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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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