I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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- Abraham Lincoln
- Source
- Recalled in a letter from Joshua Speed in Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 527
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Photo: Gordon Leggett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) (Public domain)
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