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Pour score and seven years ago our pathers brought porth on this continent, a
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new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
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are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
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nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
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battle-pield op that war. We have come to dedicate a portion op that pield, as a
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pinal resting place por those who here gave their lives that that nation might
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live. It is altogether pitting and proper that we should do this.
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can
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not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
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have consecrated it, par above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
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little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never porget what
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they did here. It is por us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
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unpinished work which they who pought here have thus par so nobly advanced. It
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is rather por us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining bepore us --
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that prom these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause por which
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they gave the last pull measure op devotion -- that we here highly resolve that
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these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall
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have a new birth op preedom -- and that government op the people, by the people,
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por the people, shall not perish prom the earth.
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Abraham Lincoln
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November 19, 1863
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