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From the most eloquent of American presidents, nearly 400 astute observations on subjects ranging from women to warfare: "Bad promises are better broken than kept"; "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory"; "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." Rather than the dour soul he sometimes appeared to be, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed a fine, often barbed sense of humor as this lively collection of his salty stories, anecdotes, quotes and speech excerpts proves. Also included in this treasury are his famous addresses, a Lincoln time-line, and sections on Lincoln Lore, Gettysburg Gems and Assassination Secrets.
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"No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture," Abraham Lincoln declared in a speech before the Wiscosin Agricultural Society on September 30, 1859. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, White House, Inaugural Address, New York, United States, New Salem, Annual Message, Emancipation Proclamation, General George, Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War Edwin, Abe Lincoln, Mary Todd, General Grant, General Robert, Daniel Webster, Horatio Alger, House of Representatives, Black Hawk Indian War, Ford's Theater, General Ulysses, John Wilkes Booth, Mark Twain, Robert Todd Lincoln New!
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"No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture," Abraham Lincoln declared in a speech before the Wiscosin Agricultural Society on September 30, 1859. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, White House, Inaugural Address, New York, United States, New Salem, Annual Message, Emancipation Proclamation, General George, Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War Edwin, Abe Lincoln, Mary Todd, General Grant, General Robert, Daniel Webster, Horatio Alger, House of Representatives, Black Hawk Indian War, Ford's Theater, General Ulysses, John Wilkes Booth, Mark Twain, Robert Todd Lincoln New!
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- A Treasury of American Folklore by B.A. Botkin on page 100, and Back Matter
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg on page 99, and Back Matter
- Abraham Lincoln (The Great Americans Series) by Jean F. Blashfield on page 69, and page 147
- Abraham Lincoln: From His Own Words and Contemporary Accounts by Edgar Appleman in Back Matter
- The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Alex Ayres in Front Matter
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- Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents by Cormac O'Brien in Back Matter
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