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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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