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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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