"I am not so young in years as I am in the tricks and trades of a politician. But, live long or die young, I
would rather die now, than, like the gentleman," – at this point Lincoln pointed at Forquer – "change
my politics, and with the change receive an office worth three thousand dollars a year. And then feel
obliged to erect a lightning rod over my house to protect a guilty conscience from an offended God."
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