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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will

"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
Man

"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
Genius

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Thought

"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."
Family

"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
Purpose

"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
Nature

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
Art

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
Character

"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
Rhetoric
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