“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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