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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."

"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."

"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"

"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
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