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12/07/1859 With pleasure I write my name in your Album. Ere long some younger man will be more happy to confer his name upon you. Don't allow it, Mary, until fully assured that he is worthy of the happiness. Dec. 7- 1859 Your friend A. LINCOLN Topics: Love, Family
12/09/1859 I would rather have a full term in the Senate than in the Presidency. Topics: Politics
12/20/1859 My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education. Topics: Learning, Family
02/09/1860 I am not in a position where it would hurt much for me to not be nominated on the national ticket; but I am where it would hurt some for me to not get the Illinois delegates. Topics: Politics
02/27/1860 Persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander. Topics: Morality
02/27/1860 Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Topics: Morality, Inspirational,Famous
03/05/1860 What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? Topics: Politics
03/05/1860 God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy. Topics: Religion
03/05/1860 If they think they are able to slander a woman into loving them, or a man into voting with them, they will learn better presently. Topics: Politics
03/05/1860 I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. Topics: Slavery, Morality

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