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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national…
• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it,…
• Reform is born of need, not pity.
• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
• War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
• Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the…
• TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with…
• We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore…
• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
• It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
• But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
• America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

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