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

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."

"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
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