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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. - Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln

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. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. - Abraham Lincoln

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln

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