In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man
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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.Henry Brooks Adams
In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.
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It love is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Brooks Adams
You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
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