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more friends to one another than either enemies or friends to their country, or than friends to ambition and innovation;
Michel de Montaigne • Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
After those telegrams, the White House had an accurate impression of Sam Rayburn as a Garner supporter, but it also had a false impression of Rayburn as Roosevelt’s enemy, as a leader not only of the Garner campaign but of the whole Stop Roosevelt movement, as the enemy of the man he not only idolized but whom he had, on a hundred occasions,
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Paul Carleton
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A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for one’s fellow-man in the broadest sense.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Jonathan Schütz
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Isaac Fitzgerald • Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Matthew Nolan
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Rounding out the group were Thomas Nelson, Jr., son of the late Virginia governor, and Washington’s young nephew Robert Lewis, who had escorted his aunt Martha to New York. Among members of Congress, James Madison stood in a class by himself in his advisory capacity to Washington. When he ran for Congress, Madison had consulted Washington about how
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