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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."
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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most."
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"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
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"Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU."
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"The person you became with her is worth being."
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"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity " as though it were another mask."
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"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Diplomacy
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Positive
"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
Aging
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Persistence
"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
Innovation
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Social
"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."
Childhood
"I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
Religion
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Politics
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Government
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