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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ↗

— John Morley

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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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