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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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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