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“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives — with accrued interest — in the mature years.”
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“It was one thing to applaud justice, another to bring it about.”
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“Washington's capitol is a reproach to common decency, this government like a fish, 'stinks worse at the head.'”
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“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.”
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“... the world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation ...”
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“Guess which four words a woman can say to scare a man out of his wits? Our house is burning! The Martians have landed! You have terminal cancer! We need to talk.”
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“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”
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“The October breeze catches the cold wet sheets you are hanging on the line. Leaves fall, and trees keep up a gentle undulating dance of branches, like old people nodding their heads in resignation as the children leave home.”