"Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense."
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination."
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"The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter."
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"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate."
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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
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"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."
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"I say that justice is truth in action."
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"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."
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""Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter."
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"Quit the world, and the world forgets you."
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"Religion is civilization, the highest."
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"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
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"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."
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"We are taught words, not ideas."
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"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."
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"Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars."
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"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."
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"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
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"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages."
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