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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
Man
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
Character
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
Fashion
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
Knowledge
"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
Time
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
Knowledge
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
Nothing
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
Man
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
Knowledge
"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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