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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."
"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
"Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world."
"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."
"If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery."
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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
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