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Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.
– Sarah Vowell

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  1. You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. – Sarah Vowell
  2. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. – Sarah Vowell
  3. The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories. – Sarah Vowell
  4. In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. – Sarah Vowell
  5. The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. – Sarah Vowell
  6. What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy] – Abraham Lincoln
  7. The stares were annoying, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. So, every morning, smiling at them became part of my routine, too. – Sarah Todd Hammer
  8. I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett
  9. Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones. – Sarah Todd Hammer
  10. This was the first piece to the whole story-”the beginning. – Sarah Todd Hammer
  11. Sarah, insight doesn’t produce change. – Sarah Thiessen
  12. If I didn’t have Lincoln’s ???? to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by. – Jessica Shirvington
  13. At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts. – Harold Holzer
  14. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. – Abraham Lincoln
  15. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. – Abraham Lincoln
  16. When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. – Abraham Lincoln
  17. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. – Abraham Lincoln
  18. It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right. – CW Abe Lincoln
  19. Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it. – Richard Brookhiser
  20. I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new. – Lincoln Michel
  21. To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all – but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing. – Abraham Lincoln
  22. I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. – Abraham Lincoln
  23. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
  24. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. – Abraham Lincoln
  25. People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny. – Murray D Lincoln
  26. One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. – Abraham Lincoln
  27. Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles. – Richard Brookhiser
  28. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln
  29. There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know. – Roger H Lincoln
  30. If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on – Abraham Lincoln
  31. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
  32. His (Lincoln’s) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God. – Elton Trueblood
  33. People are only worth what their responsibilities make them – Lincoln Cole
  34. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. – Abraham Lincoln
  35. Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own. – Richard Brookhiser
  36. And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?- Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered. – Larry Kramer
  37. Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
  38. Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me. – J Lincoln Fenn
  39. Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day. – J Lincoln Fenn
  40. I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. – Nicole Fende

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