I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ✨ Abraham Li…

Abraham Lincoln
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). The Lincoln treasury
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