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“Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.”
“She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.”
“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.”
“As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.”
“Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.”
“Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.”
“Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.”
“Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.”
“Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.”
“Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.”
