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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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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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"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
Strength
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
Law
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
Poetry
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
Beauty
"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
Man
"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."
People
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
Hope
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge
"A fool and his words are soon parted."
Fool
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