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They [two fellow congressmen] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

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Your friends sometimes go to sleep; your enemies never do.

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For the ordinary business of life, an ounce of habit is worth a pound of intellect.

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There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

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The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

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Thomas Brackett Reed

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Born: October 18, 1839
Died: December 7, 1902 (aged 63)
Bio: Thomas Brackett Reed, occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889 1891 and also from 1895 1899.
Known for:
  1. Thermal Data for Natural and Synthetic Fuels
  2. Biomass to Methanol: A Specialists' Workshop

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