A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Nations What are nations Tartars and Huns and Chinamen Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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