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

Abraham Lincoln

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" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

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