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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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