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• A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
• I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and…
• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…
• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
• The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and…
• They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
• With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
• Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
• What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
• The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for…
• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

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