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  • Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Pockets Quotes
  • The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Independent Quotes , Men Quotes