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I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to kn

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln

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Prayer
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Abraham Lincoln
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day
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Abraham Lincoln
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert

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Ancestry, Ancestors

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Ancestry, Ancestors

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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. – George W. Bush

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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they dont, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. – Vernon A. Walters

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Drinking is the soldiers pleasure. – John Dryden

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