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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to…
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very…
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there…
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
— George Gissing
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
— Isaac Barrow
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Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
— Samuel Johnson
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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