“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.