“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
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“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers?”
“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle.”
“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails.”
“It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
“Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now invoke.”