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In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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Friendship is the start for what you call love.

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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

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Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

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