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- Facts
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Friends
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Friends are born, not made.
- Mean
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Dream
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- Organization
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- Habit
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Friendship
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Good
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- Evolution
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- Good
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
They know enough who know how to learn.
- Proper
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
- Free
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
- Pond
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- Ignoring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Intimates are predestined.
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
- Man
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