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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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511 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to James W. Grimes, governor of Iowa, July 12, 1856.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, p. 348 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Elections |
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