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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"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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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
Thought


"If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"
History


"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
Despair


"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
Poor


"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
Humor


"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."
Success


"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
God


"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
Love


"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
Hope


"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."
Man
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