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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."

"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood."

"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."

"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
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