“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”

— Abraham Lincoln

1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

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