"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."

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"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."

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"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause."

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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser."

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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

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"An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere."

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"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

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"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."

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