The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... speak on religion than on politics . I commenced speaking on the stump when I was only twenty , but I commenced speaking in the church six years earlier — and I shall be in the church even after I am out of politics . WILLIAM JENNINGS ...
... speak on religion than on politics . I commenced speaking on the stump when I was only twenty , but I commenced speaking in the church six years earlier — and I shall be in the church even after I am out of politics . WILLIAM JENNINGS ...
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... speak , get up like a man anywhere . Do not bring home any bacon ; it will have turned rancid on the jour- ney ... speak up for us , do not speak up for America , speak up for people , for the free man . We are not dispatching you to ...
... speak , get up like a man anywhere . Do not bring home any bacon ; it will have turned rancid on the jour- ney ... speak up for us , do not speak up for America , speak up for people , for the free man . We are not dispatching you to ...
Page 867
... speak the truth - one to speak , and another to hear . A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers , 1849 Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory . Heal ESSAYISTS AND APHORISTS : THOREAU 867.
... speak the truth - one to speak , and another to hear . A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers , 1849 Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory . Heal ESSAYISTS AND APHORISTS : THOREAU 867.
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