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"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."

"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."

"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

"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."
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