If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks ... - 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."

Abraham Lincoln Patience

President, Politician American 1809–1865

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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

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