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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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