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I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

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