Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Richard Brookhiser
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More Quotes By Richard Brookhiser
  1. A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

  2. Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

  3. The towering genius is not apolitical.

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

  5. Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

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