I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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When the last reader reads no more.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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It is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.
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