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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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