"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."
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"I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am."
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"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."
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"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
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"Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"
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"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung"
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"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
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"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap."
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"Honor is better than honors."
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"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."
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"Violence begins where knowledge ends."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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"I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above."
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"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander"
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can."
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"My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out."
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"When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing."
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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
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"Democracy is "government of, by and for the people"."
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