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- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history…
- It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with…
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle