The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate to, and share with you. – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, February 11, 1859.
-Joshua Wolf Shenk
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