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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." -
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Abraham Lincoln
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Top 5 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."
Top 5 quotes from Ideas, Reading
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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