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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

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