After about a year of schooling as a boy—and that spread out in dribs and drabs of three months here and four months there—Lincoln taught himself.

林肯小时候大约上了一年学，但也是这儿上几个月哪儿上几个月这样念的，之后他就是自学的。

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Lincoln once said that when people leave this Earth, they spread their wings of miracles in a blaze of light and disappear.

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Initially, Lincoln's aim was simply to restore the union and bar the further spread of slavery.

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Questions have also been raised over whether the memorial disturbs the "conversation" among Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson, a presidential trinity whose memorial triangle is now impinged upon by Roosevelt's spread.

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