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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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