"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die ..." - Abraham Lincoln

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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