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| f78b20d | "Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me." | marriage singleness abraham-lincoln-quotes | Shelby Foote | |
| 2ae28a3 | "A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there." | compassion leadership abraham-lincoln-quotes american-civil-war fallibility humility | Shelby Foote |