14 Quotes by John Bartholomew Gough


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    You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

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    Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

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    His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity...

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    It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

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