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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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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – 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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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

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Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World. – Simón Bolívar

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

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