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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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"First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women."
Man
"Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel."
Family
"My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein."
War
"As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity."
Abundance
"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit."
Marriage
"As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it."
Family
"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred."
Family
"Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure."
Petition
"For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses."
Life
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
Peace
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