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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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"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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"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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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
Virtue

"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
Sense

"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
Emotional

"He who hates vice hates men."
Man

"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
Opinion

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
Business

"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."
Life

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
Man

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
Cause

"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
Literature
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