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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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