A friend in power is a friend lost.
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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Friends are born, not made.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
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