Whether They Wish Quotes by Lew Wallace

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Lew Wallace has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done;…
• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
• To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness…
• There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of…
• Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
• All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
• This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
• Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
• As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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