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Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but yourself . Go to work is the only cure for your case . A. LINCOLN because you www wwwwwwwww · poor and a cripple as he is [ 34 ]
Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but yourself . Go to work is the only cure for your case . A. LINCOLN because you www wwwwwwwww · poor and a cripple as he is [ 34 ]
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You would be better off anywhere , and especially where you are going , for not having a thousand wagons doing nothing but hauling forage to feed the animals that draw them , and taking at least two thousand men to care for the wagons ...
You would be better off anywhere , and especially where you are going , for not having a thousand wagons doing nothing but hauling forage to feed the animals that draw them , and taking at least two thousand men to care for the wagons ...
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... and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ago , so still it must be said , “ The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether .
... and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ago , so still it must be said , “ The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether .
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: As Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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