'I never went to
school more than six months in my life, but I remember how, when a mere child,
I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not
understand... I can remember going to my
little bedroom, after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father,
trying to make out what was the exact meaning of their, to me, dark sayings. I
could not sleep, although I tried to, when I got on such a hunt for an idea
until I had caught it; and when I thought I had got it, I was not satisfied
until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to
comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I
am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north
and bounded it south, and bounded it east and bounded it west.'
- Abraham Lincoln
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