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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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Personal Development
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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Personal Development
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
Ignorance
"One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."
Anecdote
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
Character
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
Self-Improvement
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
Conflict
"Error is discipline through which we advance."
Discipline
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
Power
"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
Life
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."
Man
"The great hope of society is in individual character."
Society
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