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Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Quotes: Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
         

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.


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Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
         



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