As we all know, Abraham Lincoln was largely self-taught in the midst of meager means and living on the frontiers in the US states of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois -- far from centers of learning and culture east of the Appalachian Mountains. For Lincoln, the book represented the path, and he sought them with great effort.
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