Quote #6

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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  1. All experience is an arch, to build upon.
  2. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom…
  3. Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in mos…
  4. Friends are born, not made.
  5. Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
  6. A friend in power is a friend lost.
  7. A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to cr…
  8. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

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