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American writer, 1838-1918
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Intimates are predestined”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men”

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