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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 3rd, 1783

Died: November 28th, 1859

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