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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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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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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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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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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

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