It is not enough to be industrious so are the ants. What are you industrious about.
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Henry David Thoreau
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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