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I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
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I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it may sink me , shall never break the tie of personal friendship be- tween us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you ...
I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it may sink me , shall never break the tie of personal friendship be- tween us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you ...
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By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
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[ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
[ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
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... Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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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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