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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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