"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

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"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

"For in music there is no material to be deducted."

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."