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" The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. "

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" A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. "

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" Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. "

" I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. "

" The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. "

Bryant H. McGill

" All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. "

" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "

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" Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. "

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