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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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