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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
Politics

"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
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"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
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