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Today, some insight into Lincoln's literary tastes from a letter to James H. Hackett:

"For one of my age I have seen very little of the drama. The first...

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2021-03-23

"Thy fate is the common fate of all: into each life some rain must fall." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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2021-03-20

"It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you." -- John Updike

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2021-02-26

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” -- H. G. Wells

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2021-02-21

“The lure to self-destruction grows more potent as we deplete the possibility of fresh experience.” -- Seabury Quinn

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2021-02-18

"When someone has just told us a good story, something like a tickle arises in our stomach and it won't be still until we walk into the next office and, in turn, tell the story." - Julio Cortazar

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2021-02-12

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2020-12-17

'One of the best novels written about the French Revolution and its aftermath' Times Literary Supplement

https://t.co/dze9cmMHF6

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2020-07-14