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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general ...more

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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. ...more

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, ...more

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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, t...more