“All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.”

— Abraham Lincoln

As recalled by Rebecca R. Pomroy in Echoes from hospital and White House (1884), by Anna L. Boyden, p. 61 http://books.google.com/books?id=7LZiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=feet <br class="br">Posthumous attributions <br class="br">Variant: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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