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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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