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Its direct consequences are , comparatively speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences . Abstractly considered , the hanging of the gamblers ...
Its direct consequences are , comparatively speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences . Abstractly considered , the hanging of the gamblers ...
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But if you conclude to write back , speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it . [ Letter to Mrs. O. H. Browning , Springfield , Illinois , 1 ...
But if you conclude to write back , speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it . [ Letter to Mrs. O. H. Browning , Springfield , Illinois , 1 ...
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In the difficulty between us of which you speak , you say you think I was the aggressor . I do not think I was . " words imported insult . ” I meant them as a fair set - off to your own statements , and not otherwise ; and in that light ...
In the difficulty between us of which you speak , you say you think I was the aggressor . I do not think I was . " words imported insult . ” I meant them as a fair set - off to your own statements , and not otherwise ; and in that light ...
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If , on the contrary , you shall , as I expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned ...
If , on the contrary , you shall , as I expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned ...
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state ; the lawyer from his pride and vanity of hearing himself speak ; and the hired agent for his salary . But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before ...
state ; the lawyer from his pride and vanity of hearing himself speak ; and the hired agent for his salary . But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before ...
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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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