There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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