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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."


"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."


"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."


"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."


"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."


"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."


"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
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