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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
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