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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

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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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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