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"Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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