"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."

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"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."

"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."

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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

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"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."