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To any rightly thinking person, . . . there can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind.

— John P. Marquand The Late George Apley (1937)

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you see worldly beauty.

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Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.

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I wonder whether you know exactly what marriage means. It is, my boy, a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston.

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Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one’s convictions.

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