Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (1954), by Carl Sandburg, Harvest, p. 64
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To the day of his death, it would scarcely wrong any other to say, he was my most generous friend.
— Abraham on Owen Lovejoy
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Owen Lovejoy" (Quotes about Lovejoy)
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About Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.
About Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.
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