"It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace."

-- Joseph Story

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“Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.”
“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
“Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.”

Source : Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.
“The greatest ability is dependability.”
“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”
“Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.”
“When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.”

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