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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values
"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."
Self
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Society
"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."
Loss
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
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