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Virtue is not always amiable.

John Quincy Adams

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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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