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GOVERNMENT > first lady > Mary Todd Lincoln
I am convinced,...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.
Source: Letter to Mrs. Slataper, 29 Sep 1868; in The Mary Lincoln Letters, by Justin G. Turner, 1956.
-- Mary Todd Lincoln, (Dec 13 1818-1882), US first lady; She suffered mental instability after her husband's death.