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• Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him…
• [The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
• Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
• I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen…
• Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in…
• Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
• The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from…
• In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in…
• Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
• The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

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