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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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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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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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"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off."
Life
"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
Flying
"My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."
Memory
"Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry."
Nature
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."
Man
"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
Experience
"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."
Family
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
Patience
"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it."
Writing
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