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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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"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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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
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"Hungry men don't ask, they take."
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"I don't sleep with happily married men."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
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"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."
Worth
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
Pen
"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
Conscience
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
Nonsense
"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
Nature
"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people."
People
"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality."
Quality
"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."
Work
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
Mediocrity
"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."
Fantasy
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