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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."


"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."


"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."


"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."


"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."


"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."


"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
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"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."

"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."

"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
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