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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."

"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."

"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate."

"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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