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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

"I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."
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