I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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