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Abraham Lincoln
b. 1809; d. 1865
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# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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