"I laugh because I must not cry,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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“Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.”
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“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”
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“If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.”
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“Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.”
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.”