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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."
Love

"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
Love

"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
Morality

"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."
Man

"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."
Love

"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
Friendship

"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."
Woman

"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest."
Love

"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
Friendship

"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
Morality
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