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To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of...
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown...
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Ted Striker It was a rough place – the seediest dive on the wharf....
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more...
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a...
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Even pleasure itself is a toil.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health,...
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.