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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."

"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."

"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
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