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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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They know enough who know how to learn.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1838

Died: March 27th, 1918

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