In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error … - J. G. Holland

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

J. G. Holland

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

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Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.

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Upton Sinclair

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

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Ray Dalio

There is nothing to fear from truth. . . . Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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Henry David Thoreau

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

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