All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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