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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself

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