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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
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