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Quotes by Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate

“A book is the only immortality.”

“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading”

“There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed”

“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution”

“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

A book is the only immortality

A book is the only immortality.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.