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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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