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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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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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