Quote: The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA Really wanting to know what Mr. Lincoln meant by, Fourscore and Seven Years Ago. I understand the rest of the quote.
Quote: It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright
2006-10-24
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