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| Died 12/27 | Died 12/28 | Died 12/29 | Death Dates |
"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
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| "The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time." | |
| "Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave." |  |
| "Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity." |
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
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"The end of a picture is always an end of a life."
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| "Hark! I hear a white horse coming!" |  |
| "Sanity is a cozy lie." |  |
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| Died 12/27 | Died 12/28 | Died 12/29 | Death Dates |