"What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter."

Power, Commerce, Bravery, Action, Truth

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"What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."

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"City life - millions of people being lonesome together."

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

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