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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

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I can't spare this man, he fights!

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Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

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I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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We cannot escape history.

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