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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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"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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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Politics

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
Priority

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
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