Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Disappointments

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• If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wisdom
  • Good People
  • Disappointments