"There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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