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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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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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Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
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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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