I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

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To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

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Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

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The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

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In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

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The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

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