"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."

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"Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret."

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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

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"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."

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"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends."

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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."

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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."

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"There is no education like adversity."

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"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."

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"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

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"The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories."

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"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens."

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"Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him."

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

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"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

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"He has not a single redeeming defect."

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"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

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"Genius, when young, is divine."

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"It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

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"Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."

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"Amusement to an observing mind is study."

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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

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"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

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"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

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"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

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"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

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"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

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"To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

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