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Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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I've known him for a long time, ... He's always been a man of integrity, always been a man of the community and the needs of the community, and the black community is going to stand behind him.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
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