“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.