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Whigs must adopt the convention system, Lincoln argued, for “while our opponents use it, it is madness in us not to defend ourselves with it.” Nominating conventions created party harmony and united the faithful behind one candidate. “If two friends aspire to the same office, it is certain that both cannot succeed. Would it not, then, be much less painful to have the question decided by mutual friends some time before, than to snarl and quarrel until the day of the election, and then both be beaten by the common enemy?” To illustrate the point, Lincoln employed a scriptural aphorism that he would famously use in 1858: “he whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers has declared that ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand.’ ”
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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I ordered the beans that were left over from Buddy Jellison’s Saturday-night beanhole supper. My father wasn’t much for aphorisms—in my family dispensing nuggets of wisdom was Mom’s job—but as Daddy warmed up the Saturday-night yelloweyes in the oven on Sunday afternoon, he would invariably say that beans and beef stew were better the second day. I guess it stuck. The only other piece of fatherly wisdom I can remember receiving was that you should always wash your hands after you took a shit in a bus station.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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