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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Riches without law are more dangerous than in poverty without law.

Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Henry Ward Beecher

Liberty is the soul's right to breath, and, when it can not take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

- Ann Landers

Motivational Quote

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

- Muhammad Ali

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Love Quote

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

- Anonymous

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Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.

- Sam Slick

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