Quote#Death
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally…
Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to John T. Stuart (23 January 1841), Collected Works 1:229-30.
English (original)
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
— Abraham Lincoln
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