"There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are."
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"Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung."
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"The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself."
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"The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty."
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"History is a bucket of ashes."
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"Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat"
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"It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available."
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"It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing.""
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"We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
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"Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it."
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