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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
Sports

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
Marriage

"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
People

"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre."
Man

"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
Truth

"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
Honesty

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
Lie

"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom

"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
Confidence
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