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A friend in power is a friend lost.

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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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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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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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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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Intimates are predestined.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1838

Died: March 27th, 1918

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