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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. President: It is now 20 minutes of 11 o'clock. I am not going to apologize to this virile audi ence, young men all; and if there are any who have had their threescore and ten years I can not sit them out. So, if I talk thirty minutes, and talk too long, signify it. [laughter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.