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The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age. ↗

— Paul Harris

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As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. ↗

— George Harrison

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— 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 expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. ↗

— 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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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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