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| It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. |
| by George Washington |
| Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. |
| by George Washington |
| Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. |
| by George Washington |
| There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. |
| by George Washington |
| My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. |
| by George Washington |
| A woman's life is a history of the affections. |
| by Washington Irving |
| Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. |
| by Washington Irving |
| A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. |
| by Washington Irving |
| Wisdom comes by disillusionment. |
| by George Santayana |
| A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smil |
| by Washington Irving |
| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. |
| by Booker T. Washington |
| You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. |
| by Booker T. Washington |
| Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. |
| by George Williams Curtis |
| Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. |
| by George Eliot |
| Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal. |
| by George Flaubert |
| Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar |
| by George Herbert |
| Valor that parleys is near yielding. |
| by George Herbert |
| Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. |
| by George Bancroft |
| Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. |
| by Washington Irving |
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