The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
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... Tell your mother that I have not got her " pres- ent " ( an " Oxford " Bible ) with me , but I intend to read it regularly when I return home . I doubt not that it is really , as she says , the best cure for the blues , could one but ...
... Tell your mother that I have not got her " pres- ent " ( an " Oxford " Bible ) with me , but I intend to read it regularly when I return home . I doubt not that it is really , as she says , the best cure for the blues , could one but ...
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... ] if you will state to me some meaning which you suppose I had , I can and will instantly tell you whether that was my meaning . Yours very truly , A. LINCOLN 66 ... painfully sensible of the great responsibility . . [ 76 ]
... ] if you will state to me some meaning which you suppose I had , I can and will instantly tell you whether that was my meaning . Yours very truly , A. LINCOLN 66 ... painfully sensible of the great responsibility . . [ 76 ]
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... tell you , and yet I have no bad news to tell . We have talked of elections until there is nothing more to say about them . The most interesting news we now have is from Sherman . We all know where he went in , but I can't tell where he ...
... tell you , and yet I have no bad news to tell . We have talked of elections until there is nothing more to say about them . The most interesting news we now have is from Sherman . We all know where he went in , but I can't tell where he ...
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