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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
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Journalist
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Amherst
New Hampshire
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A cigar has ...a fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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Duty and to-day are ours results and futurity belong to God.
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Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
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If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
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The word rest is not in my vocabulary.
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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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