Writing about Lincoln’s life in the Indiana wilderness Mr. James
Morgan, in his life of Abraham Lincoln, says:
One day a wagon broke down in the road, and the wife and two
daughters of the owner stayed at the Lincolns’ until it was
repaired. “The woman had books,” as Abraham recalled in later
life, “and read us stories. They were the first I ever heard.”
There never had been a book or a newspaper in the house, and he
never forgot the sight of those pages nor the woman who, by the
chance of a breakdown on the road, opened to his mind the field
of printed knowledge.
(1732)
=Knowledge, Ambition for=--See MOTHER LOVE.
=Knowledge a Necessity=--See DIRECTIONS.