"The deadliest contagion is majority opinion."

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“There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.”

“We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.”

“Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.”

“Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.”

“It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.”

“The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.”

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