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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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