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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

"According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September."

"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."

"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that."

"A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

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

"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."

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
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