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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2008). The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, p.156, Wildside Press LLC
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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2008). The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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