Whatever you are, be a good one.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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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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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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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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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,...
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)
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Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
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I have a dream... that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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