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• I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. -- Abraham Lincol
• My father used to tell me, "When Abraham Lincoln was your age, Abraham Lincoln had a job.
  When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he walked twelve miles to get to school....
• 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.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. -- Abraham Lincol
• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -- Abraham Lincol
• I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. Abraham Lincol
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...