"Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged."
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"If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference."
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"I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion."
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"Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."
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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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"Care for him who shall have borne the battle"
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."
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"No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority."
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"A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left."
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
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"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
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"Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow."
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"None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing"
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"If you have never failed you have never lived."
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"What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?"
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"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."
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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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"Life is hard but so very beautiful"
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"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.""
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"Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm"
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