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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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Personal Development

"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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Personal Development

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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Personal Development

"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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Personal Development

"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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Personal Development

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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Personal Development

"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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Personal Development

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Marriage

"I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs."
Enemy

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death

"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."
Man

"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."
People

"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage

"Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love."
Love

"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie

"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
Exploration

"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."
People
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