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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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