“You always knew that, what this was going to be. Intimate, and ugly. You must've needed to see it close when you decided to come down here.”

—  Ulysses S. Grant

To Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Lincoln.html (2012). <br class="br">In fiction, Lincoln (2012)

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