The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

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969 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
1035 Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
1017 Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
1051 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
1049 The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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