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A friend in power is a friend lost.  
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stop...  
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint;...  
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.  
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs sil...  
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and r...  
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.   History
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by appl...  
Friends are born, not made.  
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.   Politics
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man...  
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world  
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one'...  
Morality is a private and costly luxury.  
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especi...  
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for word...  
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, o...  
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it a...   Science
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possi...  
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.  
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the...  
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.  
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.  
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant...  
The proper study of mankind is woman.  
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.  
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.  
They know enough who know how to learn.  
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.  
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You mus...