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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has a

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. – Abraham Lincoln

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln

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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. – Abraham Lincoln

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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – William J. Clinton

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To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment. – William McKinley

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Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. – Benjamin Harrison

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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