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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.

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 must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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If elected I shall be thankful if not, it will be all the same.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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