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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."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."
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