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I was just lazy. I saw college just as a necessary step toward law school, which I couldn't wait for.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
confused facts heap history
History is only a confused heap of facts
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The pace and in some cases the nature of changes happening in society are occurring so rapidly that even our best efforts at incremental change leave us running in order to standstill,
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
happiness men easy
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.
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It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.
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True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.
ridiculous ridicule
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.
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Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
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It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
heart neutrality
The heart is never neutral.
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It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.
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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.