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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. – Woodrow Wilson

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More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. – Charles Francis Adams

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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. – Abraham Lincoln

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson

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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then youre a lucky individual. – Sam Elliott

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