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Book Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught…
- If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,…
- Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
- A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
- I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to…
- I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield,…
- So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
- As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly…
- The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
- He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
- Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When…
- The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.
- The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
- All I have learned, I learned from books.
- Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
- In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the…
- I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated…
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