1. Abraham Lincoln - “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

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2. Abraham Lincoln - “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”

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3. Abraham Lincoln - “If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”

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4. Abraham Lincoln - “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

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5. Abraham Lincoln - “Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world.”

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6. Abraham Lincoln - “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

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7. Abraham Lincoln - “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”

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8. Abraham Lincoln - “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.”

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9. Abraham Lincoln - “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

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10. Abraham Lincoln - “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”

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11. Abraham Lincoln - “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

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12. Abraham Lincoln - “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

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13. Abraham Lincoln - “I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”

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14. Abraham Lincoln - “Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”

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15. Abraham Lincoln - “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

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16. Abraham Lincoln - “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

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17. Abraham Lincoln - “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

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18. Abraham Lincoln - “It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

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19. Abraham Lincoln - “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

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20. Abraham Lincoln - “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

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21. Abraham Lincoln - “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

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22. Abraham Lincoln - “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.”

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23. Abraham Lincoln - “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

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24. Abraham Lincoln - “The best gift God has given man is the Bible. It is by all odds the most influential book (or rather collection of books) in existence. The Old and New Testaments have held men together spiritually through the centuries. Three hundred and fifty years ago, in 1611, fifty four devoted English scholars and churchmen, assigned to the task by King James I, gave to the English speaking world a monument of noble prose, on which so many of us have been brought up. The Bible has been translated into more than 1,150 languages. In short, the Bible has had the most dramatic career of any book in the world.”

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25. Abraham Lincoln - “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

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