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| Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? |
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| Can we never extract the tapeworm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen? |
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| Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. |
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| Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed |
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| Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. |
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| Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. |
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| Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. |
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| Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. |
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| Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. |
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| Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. |
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| Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. |
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| Concentration is the secret of strength |
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| Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. |
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