"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
-Lillian Hellman
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"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.“
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"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
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