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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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I am in the prime of senility.

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I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

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I live for books.

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I cannot live without books.

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I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

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I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

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