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And I will further , and say that if it will add anything to your comfort or peace of mind to do so , it is my sincere wish that Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing .
And I will further , and say that if it will add anything to your comfort or peace of mind to do so , it is my sincere wish that Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing .
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I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person , and in this she was not inferior , as I could discover , to any with whom I had been acquainted . Shortly after this , without attempting to come ...
I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person , and in this she was not inferior , as I could discover , to any with whom I had been acquainted . Shortly after this , without attempting to come ...
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... of all business and conversation of friends , which might divert your mind , give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death .
... of all business and conversation of friends , which might divert your mind , give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death .
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I think , if I were you , in case my mind were not exactly right , I would avoid being idle . I would immediately engage in some business , or go to making preparations for it , which would be the same thing .
I think , if I were you , in case my mind were not exactly right , I would avoid being idle . I would immediately engage in some business , or go to making preparations for it , which would be the same thing .
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But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before his neighbors “ clothed and in his right mind , ” a redeemed specimen of long - lost humanity , and stands up ...
But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before his neighbors “ clothed and in his right mind , ” a redeemed specimen of long - lost humanity , and stands up ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln American Civil War, letters and diaries Half-title: The unit books, no. 2 Issue 2 of The Unit books |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Mary Maclean |
| Publisher | Unit Book Publishing Company, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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