ENEMIES

                                  
An enemy is a person whose story we have not heard.

-- Gene Knudsen Hoffman

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During the civil War Abraham Lincoln had occasion at an official reception to refer to the Southerners rather as erring human beings than as foes to be exterminated. An elderly lady, a fiery patriot, rebuked him for speaking kindly of his enemies when he ought to be thinking of destroying them. “Why, madam,” said Lincoln, “do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

-- Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes