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This quote is not from Lincoln. Quote Investigator found no evidence connecting it to him before around 2000, and Snopes and other fact-checkers have confirmed it is absent from the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. The earliest clear appearance traces to a 1947 advertisement for a book by physician Edward Stieglitz, which read: "The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years." Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson also used a version in speeches from 1952 onward. The Lincoln attribution appears to have emerged in the late 1990s.