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"Reform is born of need, not pity."
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"There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."

"Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!"

"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."

"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
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"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."

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

"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."

"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."

"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."

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