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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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