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"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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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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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
Courage
"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine."
Man
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Vanity
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
Advice
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Life
"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"
Joy
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
Youth
"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
Emotional
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
Heaven
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Life
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