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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.

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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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
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People are just as happy as they choose to be.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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You dislike the emancipation proclamation and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
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