- Mary Todd Lincoln
(12/13/1818 – 07/16/1882)
US First Lady (16) (wife of Abraham Lincoln; see all US First Ladies)
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
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| "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'"
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"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people."
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"I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering."
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"The streets are safe in Philadelphia; it's only the people that make them unsafe."
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"When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little."
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