A very unclubable man.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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Great abilites are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree...
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Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.
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