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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
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"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
Perception
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People
"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
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"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
Man
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
"Woman absent is woman dead."
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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
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