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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville

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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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