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    Ron Chernow
    “The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “Hamilton, the human word machine,”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Alexander Hamilton
    “If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.”
    Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as “my boy.”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks.”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    Ron Chernow
    “Of all the founders, Hamilton probably had the gravest doubts about the wisdom of the masses and wanted elected leaders who would guide them. This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America’s potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself.”
    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

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    “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
    Christina Westover

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    Françoise Sagan
    “She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.”
    Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an

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    “Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

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    Ranata Suzuki
    “Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day’....”
    Ranata Suzuki

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    Rainbow Rowell
    “What do you want from me, Snow?"
    "Nothing," he says. And he means it, the actual bastard.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #20
    Ayushee Ghoshal
    “You and I
    Again and again
    Always almost
    Never enough.

    - A world of almosts”
    Ayushee Ghoshal , 4 AM Conversations

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    R.Y.S. Perez
    “...the hardest word to swallow is almost.”
    R. YS Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection

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    “Death and parting are the same.”
    Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets



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