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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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