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"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."
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"The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions."
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
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"We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come."
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"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses"
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"All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography."
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"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire."
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
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"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
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