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| Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this |
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| continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the |
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| proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a |
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| great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so |
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| conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great |
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| battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that |
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| field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives |
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| that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that |
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| we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate... we |
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| can not consecrate... we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, |
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| living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above |
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| our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long |
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| remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. |
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| It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the |
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| unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly |
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| advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task |
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| remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased |
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| devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of |
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| devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have |
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| died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of |
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| freedom and that government: of the people, by the people, for the |
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| people, shall not perish from the earth. |
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