Excerpt from The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms From the Great Emancipator January First Always do the very best you can. Second If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of duty. Third It's no use to be always looking up these hard spots. Fourth All I am in the world, I owe to the opinion of me which the people express when they call me "Honest Old Abe." Fifth The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him. 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.