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“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586
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Photo: Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0 · source · Portrait: Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) (Public domain)
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