Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
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Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
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