It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more

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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right

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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might

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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack

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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

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I never worry about action, but only about inaction

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

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