Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!