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Abraham Lincoln: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

On the recordMarch 5, 1864
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Letter to William H. Herndon

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