You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right…

Abraham Lincoln
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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1907). The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator, p.48, Library of Alexandria
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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1907). The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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