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" Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. "
Woodrow Wilson
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" At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. "
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" I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. "
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" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "
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