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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

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I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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