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"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."

"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
Explore more quotes by Rebecca H. Davis

"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."

"Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us."

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."

"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."

"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
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