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“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.”

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Common sense is very uncommon.

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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

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Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the…

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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers,…

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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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You may be witty, but not satirical.

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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure…

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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

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Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane…

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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