"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."
-Thomas W. Higginson
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"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.“
-Thomas W. Higginson
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."
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"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
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