My father taught me to work, but not to love it. - Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it."

Abraham Lincoln Family

President, Politician American 1809–1865

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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

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

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy: 'The short and simple annals of the poor.'"

"A man's home is his castle."

"Family is everything to me."

"Life's greatest treasure is the love of family."

"A woman's place is in the home... making it a happy one."