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George Jean Nathan

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

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"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
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