It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
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Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
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