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" Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. "
Horace
Alone
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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "
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