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Abraham Lincoln
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1999). The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations, Gramercy
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2012). Lincoln Speeches, p.41, Penguin
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1999). The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations, Gramercy

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