If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to sa…

Abraham Lincoln
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations, p.14, Courier Corporation
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations, p.14, Courier Corporation

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