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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."

"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."


"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"


"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."


"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."


"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."


"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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