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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading

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