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| Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. | | Uncategorized | |
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| For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret | | Life; Youth | |
| Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others | | Mind | |
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| Great countries are those that produce great people. | | Uncategorized | |
| Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. | | Uncategorized | |
| Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life | | Grief | |
| Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. | | Uncategorized | |
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| He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective | | Uncategorized | |
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| He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. | | Uncategorized | |
| He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice | | Uncategorized | |
| He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle. | | Uncategorized | |
| He traces the steam train always back to the kettle | | Uncategorized | |
| He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. | | Uncategorized | |
| He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. | | Uncategorized | |
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