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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
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"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung."

"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
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