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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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