"On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women."
-James Russell Lowell
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.“
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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