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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Government
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Funny
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
Books
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
Philosophy
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
Motivation
"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
Learning
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values
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