The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it…

Abraham Lincoln
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced. ✨ Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced. ✨ Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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