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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
Disparity
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
Progress
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
Generalization
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
Government
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
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