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  • A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Washington Irving Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Wendell Phillips The keener the want the lustier the growth.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Martha Graham We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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