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Lincoln's career, time and research will disclose many facts not now known, which may lend coloring to a character whose main features, however, cannot be changed by time nor criticism.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “Lincoln's career, time and research will disclose many facts not now known, which may lend coloring to a character whose…”
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Boutwell asserts that while new facts may emerge about Lincoln's character, the essence of it remains unchanged.
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