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" A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. "
Henry Adams
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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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" Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. "
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" The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. "
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" The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. "
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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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" 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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" 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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