War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace ...
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I wish all the foolish days of my life which I have spent at American watering-places thinking I was amused at five changes of dress a day, di...
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That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
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There are no such oysters, terrapin, or canvas-back ducks as there were in those days; the race is extinct. It is strange how things degenerat...
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General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
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All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
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There is something in the fullness of life—that brimming excess of emotion, thought, effort, enjoyment, and work which only reaches an Ameri...
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... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the educati...
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Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I'm trying to find exactly what your wife does do. Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little....
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We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.
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Home wasn't built in a day.
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Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.
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Faith is not contrary to reason
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Faith is not contrary to reason.
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