"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
-Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.“
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"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
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"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
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"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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