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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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It is a dangerous thing to accept gifts: for two days after come request.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is rarely a mistake.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
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