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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
Rhetoric
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
Genius
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Thought
"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
Purpose
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
Character
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
Nature
"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."
Family
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
Work
"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
Man
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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