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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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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."
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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
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"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."
Man
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
Character
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Fire
"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
People
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
Man
"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
Being
"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
Time
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Man
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