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"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."
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"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."

"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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