People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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I may be in the gutter, but I'm looking at the stars.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
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