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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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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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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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