There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.

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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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