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«[I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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antagonism, antagonisms, ceaselessly, collision, collisions, convulsion, convulsions, extension, fiercely, selfishness, shocks, throe, throes
«Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
banishment, benefited, drinks, fourths, intoxicating, Not now, three-fourths
«Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition»
«You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«I will be frank. The taste is in my mouth ... .»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter»
«Fourscore 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»
«The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle»
«Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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complaint, Raise Your Voice, singular, writhe, writhed, writhes, writhing
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