I was partner of William H. Herndon in this city in the year 1878. … Mr. Herndon continually spoke of Mr. Lincoln's greatness and goodness. He told me of travelling over the State from one county seat to another with the meager law-library in saddle-bags. … Herndon spoke of Lincoln's ability as a lawyer and statesman. He also admired greatly Lincoln's kindness of heart, his forgiving disposition. He was greatly impressed by Mr. Lincoln's attitude of kindness toward young men in the army who were found guilty of transgression of military regulations.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was partner of William H. Herndon in this city in the year 1878. … Mr. Herndon continually spoke of Mr. Lincoln's greatness and goodness. He told me of travelling over the State from one county seat to another with the meager law-library in saddle-bags. … Herndon spoke of Lincoln's ability as a lawyer and statesman. He also admired greatly Lincoln's kindness of heart, his forgiving disposition. He was greatly impressed by Mr. Lincoln's attitude of kindness toward young men in the army who were found guilty of transgression of military regulations." in the context of "Comments by Judge George W. Murray (1939-1926) - "the last law partner of William H. Herndon (1818-1891), the last law partner of Lincoln." https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22last+law+partner+of+William+H.+Herndon%2C+the+last+law+partner+of+Lincoln%22&gws_rd=ssl - who gave this statement to Rev. William E. Barton, D. D., April 21, 1920. Quoted in The eugenics of President Abraham Lincoln; His German-Scotch Ancestry Irrefutably Established from Recently Discovered Documents (1940), James Caswell Coggins (1865-1958), Goodwill press, Milligan College, Elizabethton, Tennessee, p. 222. https://archive.org/stream/eugenicsofpresid00cogg#page/222/mode/2up/search/%22Lincoln's+greatness+and+goodness%22 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/2637161.html" to mean that wisdom is timeless.