There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.James Russell Lowell
Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do.
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... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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