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- My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the…
- Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent…
- Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
- We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray…
- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the…
- I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true…
- Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
- I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have…
- The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is…
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