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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

by Jon Meacham

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“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

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“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

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“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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