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• In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud…
• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes....
• Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
• Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
• To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If…
• All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test…
• What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the…

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