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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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