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  • Catharine Esther Beecher How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Graham Greene I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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