I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

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I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

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