County of Bentheim/counts of Bentheim C 1050 - 1277

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    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Talent counts thirty percent; appearance counts seventy.
    Chinese proverb.