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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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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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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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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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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
Life

"Time is the only critic without ambition."
Time

"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
Time

"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."
Memory

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
Art

"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
Family

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
Life

"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
Life

"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
Wisdom

"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."
Philosophy
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