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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. — Samuel Johnson
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith
- There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith
- I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith