Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.Thomas W. Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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Do not waste a minutenot a secondin trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.
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