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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

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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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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
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I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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