正文 第22章 Tragedies of Money(1 / 1)

Abraham Lincoln

How simple his financial ideas were appears in his reported remark shortly before his election as President: “I have a cottage at Springfield and about eight thousand dollars in money. ...I hope I shall be able to increase it to twenty thousand, and that is as much as any man ought to want.” As a matter of fact, his estate was much larger than this at the time of his death.

Mrs. Lincoln _disibledevent= We are completely ignorant of his plans.) 我們對他的計劃一無所知。

名言

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Lincoln

卓越的天才不屑走別人走過的路,他要尋找從未被開拓的地區。——林肯