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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
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She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although…
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third…
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…
— James Madison
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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but…
— John Timbs
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It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants…
— James Madison
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Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.
— B. J. Palmer
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