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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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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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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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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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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual
"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."
Emotion
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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