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“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”

Henry Adams · Politics

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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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