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"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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"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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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."
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