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"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
Wife

"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being

"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love

"Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see."
Men

"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
Beauty

"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."
Love

"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
Country

"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
People

"Women serve but to keep a man from better company."
Woman

"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
Business
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