"Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here."

-- Wendell Phillips

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“The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), chapter XV, 1922.
“There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!”
“It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.”
“It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.”
“Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.”
“I love to work. I love doing standup.”
“No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.”

Source : Michael Cadnum (2015). “Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun”, p.13, Open Road Media
“I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.”

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