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— Henry Ward Beecher"The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant."
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If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.
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