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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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"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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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
Poetry
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man
"Reform, that we may preserve."
Reform
"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
Progress
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
Division
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."
History
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
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