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We credit ourselves for our successes; we blame others for our faults.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, businessman, philosopher
The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard [comp. E. Hubbard II (1930)]

There can be no truer principle than this — that every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
Speech, Constitutional Conventnion, Philadelphia (29 Jun 1787)

In good conversation, parties don’t speak to the words, but to the meanings of each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
“Social Aims,” Letters and Social Aims (1876)

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Josef Stalin (1879-1953) Soviet political leader
Interview with H. G. Wells (Sep 1937)
Full text.

Ah! two desires toss about
The poet’s feverish blood;
One drives him to the world without,
And one to solitude.

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet and critic
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann” (1852), st. 24.