Alexei and Tad Lincoln

[Nictionary]

There is one thing that Abraham Lincoln and Nicholas II had in common, which is their intense fatalism.  There is a line from Hamlet that Lincoln often quoted:
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will—.
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[Nictionary]

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