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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ✨ Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ✨ Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

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