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"Get
a good ready," by Lincoln.
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29-SC-22 |
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"All
the little Colt revolvers would have grown into horse pistols."
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29-1-58 |
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Lincoln telling a joke to a group of friends. SOLD |
30-SC-20 |
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"Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him."
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30-1-50 |
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Books
- From Page 5 of Cliff Hangers SOLD OUT
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30-1-51 |
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Open
Door Day for President Lincoln.
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31-1-52 |
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Attorney
seeking advice from Lincoln.
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31-1-53 |
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"Don't swap horses when crossing a stream."
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31-1-54 |
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Lincoln
quote, "Every man must skin his own skunk.”
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32-1-49 |
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Lincoln
quote, "Hold on with a bulldog grip." |
32-1-47 |
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Lincoln
quote, "I ain't greedy 'bout land, I only want jines mine!"
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32-1-55 |
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Lincoln
quote, "I feel like a man letting rooms at one end of the
house while the other end is on fire."
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33-1-48 |
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Lincoln
quote, "I call these weekly receptions my public opinion baths." |
33-SC-19 |
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Two
rotund and proud congressmen annoyed President Lincoln.
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34-1-57 |
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Mrs.
Lincoln brushing the President's hair.
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34-1-59 |
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Lincoln
had very little schooling.
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34-1-70 |
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Lincoln
quote " Like an ox jumped halfway over the fence."
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35-1-56 |
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Mentor
Graham asked Lincoln if he could write.
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35-1-69 |
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Lincoln
quote, "My politics are short and sweet, like an old woman's
dance."
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35-2-39 |
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Lincoln
quote, "No man is so tall as when he stoops to help a child..."
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36-1-68 |
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Lincoln
quote, "That blower can compress the most words in the fewest
ideas of any man I ever knew."
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36-1-67 |
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Lincoln
was asked if a certain neighbor was a man of means.
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36-1-66 |
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President Lincoln describes his height.
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37-1-65 |
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Lincoln,
the match maker
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37-1-63 |
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Lawyer
Lincoln responds to a young rival attorney. |
38-1-62 |
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Lincoln
swaps his wit and humor for folk songs by Ward Hill Lamon.
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38-SC-18 |
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Lawyer
Lincoln's stove pipe hat served as his briefcase. Breezy days
were a hazard.
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38-1-61 |
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Lincoln
quote, "Bends their ears."
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39-SC-17 |
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Reply given to Attorney Lincoln by the old Quaker witness in court. |
39-1-60 |
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Cliff
Hangers and Down to Earth Sayings by
Lincoln and Other Common Folks |
40-1-34 |
The
following ink art works by Lloyd Ostendorf in 1990 were used to
illustrate chapters in the book Cliff Hangers and Down to Earth
Sayings by Abraham Lincoln and Other Common Folk. |
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Straight
from the horse's mouth |
41-1-44 |
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Fits
like a saddle on a sow (shows a farmer saddling a pig) |
41-1-43 |
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Sly
as a fox |
41-1-40 |
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Stubborn
as a mule |
41-1-39 |
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Comfortable
as an old shoe |
42-1-38 |
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Biggest
duck in the puddle |
42-1-42 |
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Mad
as an old wet hen |
42-SC-21 |
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Barking
up the wrong tree |
42-1-46 |
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By
the grapevine |
43-1-45 |
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Straight
from the horse's mouth |
43-1-41 |
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