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" We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. "
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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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" Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. "
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" A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. "
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" I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. "
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" God screens us evermore from premature ideas. "
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" Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. "
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" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "
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" Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. "
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" As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. "
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" Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. "
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