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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.


Samuel E. Morison

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SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
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SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER