Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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