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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333 -
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.
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The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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