Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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For those that fly, may fight again, which he can never do that's slain.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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