Stephen Vincent Benet

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

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These are some quotes by American author Stephen Vincent Benet Poet, who lived between July 22, 1898 and March 13, 1943.

Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

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