A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper
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  1. A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

  2. Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

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  4. I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

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