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... adopt the oath that I take ? Let none falter who thinks he is right , and we may succeed . But if , after all , we shall fail , be it so . We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences , and to the departed ...
... adopt the oath that I take ? Let none falter who thinks he is right , and we may succeed . But if , after all , we shall fail , be it so . We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences , and to the departed ...
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... adopt this as the last method I can adopt to aid you , in case ( which God forbid ! ) you shall need any aid . I do not place what I am going to say on paper because I can say it better that way than I could by word of mouth , but ...
... adopt this as the last method I can adopt to aid you , in case ( which God forbid ! ) you shall need any aid . I do not place what I am going to say on paper because I can say it better that way than I could by word of mouth , but ...
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... adopted have not been the most proper . These champions for the most part have been preachers , lawyers , and hired agents . Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approach- ability , if the term be admissible ...
... adopted have not been the most proper . These champions for the most part have been preachers , lawyers , and hired agents . Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approach- ability , if the term be admissible ...
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... adopted . It is an old and a true maxim “ that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall . " So with men . If you would win a man to your cause , first convince him that you are his sincere friend . Therein is a drop of ...
... adopted . It is an old and a true maxim “ that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall . " So with men . If you would win a man to your cause , first convince him that you are his sincere friend . Therein is a drop of ...
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... adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so fiendishly selfish , so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing ...
... adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so fiendishly selfish , so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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