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I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound--some-times to an extravagant activity.
Source: How I found Livingstone (1872) Ch. 6 -
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I'd rather be right than President.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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