"A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author."

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“Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.”

“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”

“There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.”

“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”

“God's glowing covenant.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.”

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"I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be."

— Lennox Lewis

Sports1965

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"Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone?"

— Sarah Dessen

Literature1970

#family

"I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it."

— Louise Bourgeois

Art1911–2010

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"International communism would entirely do away with all national and racial qualities which are founded in human nature itself; in property it sees the most primary cause of the break-down of world tr…"

— Joseph Goebbels

Politics1897–1945

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