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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
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"The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there."

"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."

"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."

"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
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