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"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
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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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"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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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
Public
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."
Money
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
Science
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
Science
"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
Virtue
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
People
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
Nature
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
Imagination
"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."
Ambition
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
Fear
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