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

Abraham Lincoln

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" I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. "

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