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Intimates are predestined.

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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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The proper study of mankind is woman.

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Friends are born, not made.

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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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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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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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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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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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