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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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